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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caused few casualties in France, the famed chateaux of the Loire are not yet converted into hospitals as they were in World War I. French women last week were actually having a good deal harder time in every way than French troops at the front. In a broadcast to women on their wartime duties which could have been made only in France, Poet-Playwright Jean Giraudoux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Example, by Double-Talker Murray ("Looney") Lewis during a Fred Allen broadcast about the New York World's Fair Hall of Pharmacy: "Ilfus on the bildad with just enough reticulation on the nostrum to allograph Ipana, Minit-Rub and Sal Hepatica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Villainy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Unlike Germans, Britons may listen to any foreign broadcast they can tune in. To reach British ears with the Nazi side of World War II, Germany broadcasts in English, sometimes as much as eight hours a day. Most familiar voice from Germany, to most British listeners, speaks daily from Zeesen in exaggerated pip-pip English, caning British high-ups and war policies; deploring the blockade with: "Rehly, you British, it isn't manlah!" Some listeners think this hyper-Oxonian voice is Traitor Norman Baillie-Stewart's, some think it is Dr. Helmut Hoffman's, who once lectured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Haw-Haw of Zeesen | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Finland...is a direct consequence of Hitler's Russian policy last August, and it will increase the growing unrest in Germany, which some day may result in the overthrow of the Hitler regime," Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, declared Saturday in the Guardian's fourth weekly broadcast over WEEI...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAY SCOFFS AT THREAT OF RUSSO-NAZI TREATY | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...turnkeys and wardens alike for items. But what buzzes along the prison grapevine, wise Lifer Whitsitt lets severely alone. One night last fortnight the grapevine crackled with details of an attempted jailbreak, in which six escaping prisoners killed a guard. Of this black-type story, the Radio Gazette has broadcast not a peep. Says young Lifer Whitsitt: "I'm no Walter Winchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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