Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of her regular weekly broadcast for Pond's Face Creams last week, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt declared: "I sometimes think that the wife who stays at home and carries on all the work in the household should be paid a definite salary, for she earns it without any question...
Quietly knitting a dark blue sweater for his fiancée-who last week legally changed her name to Wallis Warfield - the Duke of Windsor sat in the Château de Cande last week through the broadcast of his brother's Coronation (see p. 15). Acting as unofficial press representative, the Duke's faithful U. S. friend, Herman Rogers, issued to newshawks genteel snippets of information: legally changing Mrs. Simpson's name had cost $2.50. . . . Mrs. Warfield had put aside Ernest Simpson's engagement ring for a new emerald from the Duke. ... On Coronation night...
Newsreels. Immediately after the King's broadcast from Buckingham Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke of Norfolk went to a private projection room in London's West End to view the 7,000 ft. of film made in the Abbey. A close-up of Queen Mary weeping they promptly cut out. News of this excision soon spread, and thousands of British cinemaddicts who flocked to the movies were bitterly disappointed to see how little of the Abbey ceremony had been left in. Audiences vented their spleen on the Archbishop by sniggering when he was shown examining...
Radio. Like the newsreel cameras, 28 radio microphones were strung by British Broadcasting Corp. along the seven miles from the Palace to the Abbey and return. Into a central control room at Broadcasting House, through 472 miles of wire and twelve tons of equipment, poured a Babel of sounds-trumpets, cheers, tramping, coughs, prayers, commentaries-to be sifted and unified, put on the world's ether waves. In the Abbey alone were 30 microphones-one of them, supersensitive, was hung high in the vaulted roof over the chancel-to catch every syllable of the historic service. Radio officials later...
America should abandon her tendency to "scuttle and run" in her Pacific policy and adopt a more responsible attitude said Bruce Hopper, assistant professor of Government, in a Guardian lecture broadcast over station WAAB last night...