Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour before the broadcast some 100 patriotic and prosperous members of the National Americanization League, led by a be-spatted onetime alderman from Manhattan's "silk stocking" district and a burly onetime major general in the Irish Army, appeared before the Columbia Broadcasting building, marched up & down the sidewalk with small U. S. flags and placards lettered SMASH COMMUNISM and BROWDER IS BORING FROM WITHIN...
Also in Washington, Representative John L. McClellan of Arkansas announced in the House that he had inquired at the Federal Communications Commission, learned that letters and telegrams protesting the Communist broadcast were pouring in. "I denounce," cried he, "the action of the Columbia Broadcasting System for aiding and abetting a public enemy that seeks to invade this nation by the dissemination of its poisonous propaganda...
...announced in advance that seven New England stations affiliated with the system would substitute a program of dance music for the Red secretary's speech, though their listeners would hear Representative Fish's reply to it next evening. Most Pacific Coast stations also refused to broadcast the speech...
...This Incident." Japanese listeners heard the War Office Radio announce that the Premier had been "killed" (not "assassinated") and the official broadcast continued in so moderate a vein that Japanese censors later passed dispatches in which it was called an "implied defense" of the killers. They, according to the War Office, "decided to rise for the purpose of removing corrupt elements around the throne who, they considered, should be charged with the crime of destroying national policy, in co-operation with Admiral Okada, the Premier, senior military and financial factions and bureaucrats, at this juncture when Japan, is confronted with...
...since Adolf Hitler dismissed in a few broadcast phrases the butchering of scores of Germans in his "blood purge'' has there been a broadcast so scandalous. The Japanese War Department seemed to wish to make known to the public the vague excuses of bloody rebels for monstrous killings as though the motives of such dastards might be worthy of respect...