Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary antenna, this one has a diameter of a good sexed ship's cable, and wireless experts gave it as their opinion that the fortunate radio to which it is attached could broadcast election returns to China, provided anyone cares in Cathay...
...debate at Yale was broadcast on a New Haven station and was preceded by a torchlight parade through the college grounds...
...evening last week in the Tropical Room of Chicago's Medinah Athletic Club a hundred newspapermen and a posse of local Republican bigwigs assembled to hear a radio broadcast. What they were going to hear was a secret that few knew. That it was going to be "sensational," that it was going to be broadcast over-station WGN of the bitterly Republican Chicago Tribune and 66 outlets of the Columbia network, was common talk...
Hill Blackett, another GOPressagent in Chicago, had spent six weeks digging up phonograph records of Presidential broadcasts to recall to listeners, in full verisimilitude of tone and voice, Franklin Roosevelt's promises in times past. Mean time Columbia Broadcasting officials who discovered what was going to happen only ten minutes before it began happening, had gone into a dither. Hastily they found a reason for not broadcasting the GOProgram: Columbia has a rule against broadcasting "electrically transcribed" programs on national networks. They announced that "Senator Vandenberg's Fireside Mystery Chat" had therefore been cancelled. Listeners heard the announcement...
...decade. Government estimates for the new crop are 33,330,000 Ib. compared with a bumper yield of 95,340,000 Ib. in 1935. Not one cent will be earned by the Texas nut grove of the most eminent U. S. pecan grower, John Nance Garner. Just before he broadcast his only campaign speech from his home in Uvalde, the Vice President let it be known that his pecans were this year a total failure, declaring: "I'm just leaving the whole crop for the squirrels...