Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year WBBM sold its football broadcasts to the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., and this year to the Kellogg Co. Never at any time has WBBM, Socony, or Kellogg paid Northwestern University for the rights to broadcast any sport...
Little time was wasted last week on the ironies of Labor politics in Denver. Keynoting to the delegates and later to the nation in a radio broadcast, President Green swore he would drive the C. I. O. out of existence. "The clock has struck. The hour is here. . . ." he cried. "Our patient, long-suffering, hopeful group of organized workers and their representatives will now change from a position of watchful waiting and earnest appeal to the greatest fighting machine that was ever created within the ranks of Labor...
Hopes that the Harvard-Navy game would be broadcast over a Boston station were shattered last night when news came that no local station would carry the game. Both Columbia and National networks will run the encounter over a New York station, however...
...addition to name, age, sex, race, the answers to the questions should indicate when the recipient worked last, what at, how much work he did in the previous week and year, whom he supports, whether anyone else in his family is unemployed. Franklin Roosevelt is to give a "fireside" broadcast urging all unemployed to fill out cards. The Post Office Department - whose James Aloysius Farley may by that time have resigned to head Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co.-will return the cards to Washington, to be sorted by census bureau clerks. Mr. Biggers' only paid aids will...
...luncheon of Chicago's Executives' Club, 84-year-old Novelist Opie Read was a guest. He made a speech to 400 people, broadcast over station WJJD. Said he, "Al Dunlap and I were in the same compartment on a train traveling from Stratford-on-Avon to London. Across the aisle sat a very thoughtful-looking Englishman, and in the seat opposite was an American. The American had been talking about the different trees he saw. 'You seem to be very well acquainted with timber,' said the Englishman. 'Yes, I was brought up among them...