Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ushered in a six-week run of opera at the Cincinnati Zoo. Busy Fausto Cleva was again conducting. Manager Oscar Hild had got hold of such Metropolitan singers as Bruna Castagna, Carlo Morelli, Leon Rothier, Norman Cordon, John Gurney. Friday operas were to be broadcast over the NBC Blue network...
...days later Sir John Reith, chief of British Broadcasting Corp., decided that he, too, would give the Basque children a treat. To the tent-city near Southampton where 2,000 of the refugees are being housed, he went with a radio van. When news came that Bilbao had fallen (see p. 20), Sir John, against the advice of the camp's Basque officials, decided to broadcast the bad news...
...better to tell the children the news after they were fed and before they went to bed so they could sleep on it." When the first shock had passed 50 of the children sent apologies to Camp Commandant Henry Brinton, declared: "Some of us decided the news was being broadcast by a person of Fascist sympathies...
...England at the time of George VI's Coronation was Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. She was in such high good humor last week that, stepping to the microphone in Amsterdam, Her Royal Highness became the first Crown Princess, and possibly the first woman, to broadcast the news that she is expecting a child. This Juliana did with becoming Dutch delicacy in these words: "Nooit had iets mij kunnen weerhouden alle deelen van het programma mee te maken, waren het niet-op zichzelf verheugende-gezond-heidsredenen geweest, die u zeker wilt verstaan en billijken." ("Nothing would ever have...
John G. Winant, former Governor of New Hampshire, will be the orator, and plans have been made to broadcast his oration over state W1XAL. The poet will be Daniel Sargent '13, Instructor in History and Literature at Harvard...