Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without a fight. From Shanghai, where she had been keeping herself ably in the limelight, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. last week arrived in Manila on the President Jefferson just in time to maintain her clan's record for attendance at oriental earthquakes. Said she, in an able radio broadcast: "I want to extend heartfelt thanks for the way in which we were received at Manila. All the church bells rang out for us. I suppose I must add that it was caused by the . . . earthquake...
Asked to give a concert, mostly of U. S. music, for the benefit of the Musicians' Union, Iturbi arranged his program with time out for solos by Radio Singers Lucy Monroe and Jan Peerce. Half the program was to be broadcast by NBC, and Iturbi understood, or so he said later, that during that half he would lead the orchestra. When he arrived at the Dell, however, Iturbi found that Singers Peerce and Monroe were about to go on the air with songs by Gershwin, Victor Herbert, Oley Speaks, Jerome Kern. Frank La Forge, Daniel Wolf, Coleridge Taylor. Conductor...
...emergency organ recital, Iturbi explained the interruption backstage. "There is good American music," he cried, "but all this I-love-you stuff is just trash. It is far below 'the dignity of the orchestra to play such cheap, rotten music. See, I cannot permit such stuff on a broadcast ... I have been put in a spot. I refuse to go on with the program unless the songs are cut out." Harassed Dell officials finally coddled Iturbi into going on with the program, putting the rest of the "Iloveyou" songs off to the end. Mollified, the muscular maestro-who used...
...just after dawn. Every Egyptian town of importance had been equipped by the Government in recent weeks with a radio loudspeaker in the public square and the whole kingdom could listen for the first time to its sovereign. "I pledge myself to be the first servant of my country," broadcast Farouk I. "I thank everyone, the Egyptian people and also foreigners, for the loyalty they have shown to the fatherland and to myself...
...time it looked as if broadcasters might make their peace. What they could not agree to, however, was the provision touching transmission of music to stations that do not employ musicians. It seemed to the radio people that they ought to be permitted to broadcast wherever and to whomever they pleased, that it was the musicians' job to get small stations to hire more men. Joseph Weber, knowing full well that they were attacking his most crucial demand, stood up bravely, sent many a radio representative home to sleepless nights. Because musicians are as tightly organized as any labor...