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Word: broadcasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking at the City Club in Boston, Hicks was displeased because the program had been arranged so that the part on which he was to speak was not broadcast over Station WAAB. After awhile, a radio listener sent in the question which asked which came first, Communism or Fascism, and is freedom of speech allowed under Communism. Ehrmann remarked that since Hicks had not been heard on the air, it would not be necessary to answer the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS HICKS RAISES OUTCRY | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

LONDON-Spanish Insurgent headquarters at Salamanca tonight broadcast an official announcement that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's advance columns had captured Blanes, the first town in Gerona Province to fall to the Nationalists...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

From Bratislava: "I have seldom heard so much truth about the fate of the Jews as in your broadcast ... we never hear such manly words about humanity here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: For German Ears | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...They want [an editor] who cannot read or write, make a speech, a broadcast, or walk. What they want is a mummy, a dummy and a 'flummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Showdown | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Last year the Hummerts began sending scripts to London to be Anglicized and broadcast from Normandy and Luxemburg to British listeners. Anglicizing largely involved changing cops to bobbies, dollars to pounds, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round to London Merry-Go-Round, Lorenzo Jones to Marmaduke Brown, and most writers felt that some fame or profit from this rebroadcasting should come to them. But every script that went abroad was prudently marked, like those used in the U. S.: "Authors-Frank and Anne Hummert," and B-S-H picked up all the chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hummerts' Mill | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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