Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune lilted all last week through the heads of the 500-odd members of the U, S. Congress: Home, Sweet Home. Senator LaFollette, who had spent the previous weekend yachting with the President, broadcast to the press his view that Congress should stay in session until a ''comprehensive legislative schedule" had been enacted. He said that he spoke only for himself, which in one sense was true since he is the only member of the Progressive Party in the Senate, but Senator Barkley, the new majority leader, who had also been on the yachting party was promptly quizzed...
...King & Queen trod the bleak Welsh scene last week, and were greeted with cheers approximately the same as for Edward VIII, George VI was seen to chat in undertones with Queen Elizabeth. Fortnight ago in Edinburgh his radio broadcast showed a recurrence of his speech difficulty-with pauses of as much as 15 seconds between some words,-and last week no royal broadcast was scheduled in South Wales. Never once speaking loud enough to be heard in public, His Majesty handed to the officials who welcomed him a reply thanking South Wales in 100 unexciting written words...
...Cabinet, anxious to announce the terms of their decision to partition Palestine (TIME, July 12), met at No. 10 Downing Street last week in worried session over what might be the attitude of Benito Mussolini. Would Il Duce use his super-power radio station at Bari, which daily broadcasts in Arabic to the natives of the Near East, as an engine of propaganda to stir up the tribes and wreck partition? Would Bari even broadcast in Hebrew to stir up the Jews? During the Ethiopian crisis, Britain learned to her cost how much trouble the Bari station can stir...
...existing system in Palestine could only end in disaster!" broadcast from London Earl Peel, Chairman of the Royal Commission. "I predict peace between Jews and Arabs when each have their own states in Palestine...
...mothers grew uneasy. When suppertime had come and gone, Mrs. Stephens sent her little boy Garth, 7, to the park to look for them. An hour later the parents called the police. Shortly after midnight a community search was on and the disappearance of the three little girls was broadcast on the Los Angeles police network. By Sunday morning a State-wide alarm...