Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square-jawed French Premier returned hot from an inspection of French lines to broadcast: "I am not the leader of fanatic masses. I am charged with direction of a nation of free men. . . . They know why they are fighting. They are fighting because Germany has forced war on us, because for the last three years the devouring German ambition has not left Europe a single secure...
...Hitler has pretended that he wanted only Danzig, plebiscite for the Corridor, an autostrade. He still broadcast his assurances even while he had in his hands the precious agreement by which Germany and Russia were to partition their living prey...
...woman radio announcer who swooned as they shouted into her microphone for all Rumania to hear: "Attention! Calinescu has been assassinated. The action was carried out by Iron Guards." It so happened that the Premier's wife, who was staying at their country place, was listening to this broadcast, which she at first took to be a hoax. She set out for Bucharest with her 16-year-old son. On arrival, she was told that her husband was dead with five bullets through his body and one through an eye.* At the sight of his body she fainted...
These news broadcasts are entirely separate from Harvard's weekly general programs, broadcast in English and also over WRUL
...radio industry's present five-year contract with ASCAP expires in December 1940, but for the last three years broadcasters have been girding for a great fight to break ASCAP's hold on U, S. music. Last week in Chicago, NAB got in a showy bit of brandishing, by voting to organize something to be called Broadcast Music, Inc. Subject to SEC requirements, stock will be sold to broadcasters up to one-half their 1937 payments to ASCAP. In 1937 ASCAP collected $3,878,000 from radio; last year, $3,845,000. Announced purpose of Broadcast Music...