Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sistine Chapel the Holy Father received the third of five "obediences" from the Cardinals,† delivered a brief address, which was broadcast. Pius XII invoked blessings not only upon all Catholics, but with highest tact declared: "In this solemn moment our thoughts run also to all those who are outside the Church, to those who will be pleased to know that the Pope raises for them . . . prayers and wishes for every good. . . . We invite everybody to peace of conscience, tranquil in the friendship of God, to peace of families . . . to peace among nations through mutual, brotherly assistance, friendly collaboration...
Most submarginal U. S. churches-and there are many-would welcome the ministrations of a business-minded churchman who would: 1) supply each of them with a $45 radio (which he could buy in quantities for $25 apiece) ; 2) broadcast to them a rousing Sunday morning sermon, a good choir program; 3) ask in return only such donations as they care to send him. From Indianapolis for the past five years, a smart businessman named E. (for Emmett) Howard Cadle has been doing exactly that. Last week, celebrating the fifth anniversary of his broadcasts over Cincinnati's big station...
...absolute howl on the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Wednesday night Band Wagon is "Resident Comedian" Arthur Askey, who is a sort of British Joe Cook. Month or so ago Askey ("Big-Hearted Arthur") and his stooge, Stinker Murdoch, made a batter of mainly carbolic acid and turpentine for some cakes to discourage an unwanted guest. The batter was to be called Askitoff. In mixing it they professed to spill some on the carpet, whereupon the dirt magically disappeared. This was, Askey's cue to crack "Askitoff will take it off." Thereafter Askey began repeating the crack several times...
...World's Fair luncheon for visiting mayors in Manhattan Amos 'n' Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll) broadcast an extracurricular skit. Amos: "De emblem o' de fair is really bee-yutiful. Dat tall tower reminds me of de Washin'ton monument; an' dat big ball reminds me. . . ." Andy: ". . . of Jim Farley's haid." They were followed by New York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who assumed an accent and ad-libbed: (As Amos) "No mail today. ... I knew you should'n'a made dat crack about Jim Farley...
Said a Hitler Maid, recently promoted to undercover agent, as she dialed a German news broadcast: "You may think that our radio is the voice of our. people, but it is not. The voice of Naziism is trumpeted, but the true voice of Germany is a murmur. . . . We are listening now to news that is never published. What we learn we are passing from one to another...