Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked that the bus be moved, one Congressman quipped, "Is that an executive order, Mr. President?" Chortled Ike, when the bus driver was slow in moving: "And obeyed just about as rapidly." Climbing aboard one of the congressional buses, Ike handled a microphone like a veteran tour guide,* broadcast a military man's running estimate of Civil War generals: "Never in the war did Lee establish good staff work . . . The two best men the Union had were McDowell and Pope, until they got Meade . . . One of the biggest problems was keeping women out of Hooker's camp . . . Kilpatrick...
...historic news was buried in a routine Tass broadcast servicing newspapers in Central Asia. Picked up by an alert U.S. monitor in the Middle East, it was flashed to Washington, arrived at the White House just as President John Kennedy was leaving for a press conference in the auditorium...
...that woman in her kitchen just now that is suffering with a bad tumor-God wants you to send in your request! And that woman that is sitting there by the radio and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Oh. God, don't doubt this broadcast. Be sure that you help me now. Obey the voice of God in you for giving me as much as you can, and God will give back, and if you send in $5 or more, request the beautiful nativity Bible. Oh-it is such a beautiful Bible, with maroon binding...
...right that I should ask you to help support our work? You don't owe us anything. You write me whether you've got any money or not to send. But if you have something that you can send to us to help pay for our broadcast. God will bless you. You enclose your tithe, a little offering, a donation, whatever the Lord lays on your heart, and we will thank you, thank you, thank you. from the bottom of our heart. God will bless you. Don't let me worry about finances. Send your donation...
...Wall Street. Such sterling services produced their due reward. When the Germans finally attacked their "ally." Stalin named Ulbricht a top member of the National Committee for Free Germany, which organized anti-Hitler propaganda campaigns in German prisoner-of-war camps, broadcast Moscow's message by loudspeaker to the Nazi divisions around Stalingrad. The National Committee was no great success in winning over the enemy. But it did serve as a readymade nucleus for Communist administration when the time came to move into postwar Germany. When Hitler's armies collapsed, one man was the logical choice to carry...