Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narrow margin (37-to-30) the Assembly had voted down a proposal to have the proceedings broadcast over a national hookup. Concealing whatever chagrin he felt at this. Convict Mooney, dressed in the neat blue suit he wears on such occasions, began his story quietly into a loudspeaker which promptly required adjustment. While it was being repaired, newspaper and newsreel cameramen flocked about the celebrity. Said Convict Mooney: "I hope you people in the room will bear with me but after being buried for 21 years ... I sort of take to all this...
...Picture my feeling of emotion!" gasped Orator Hitler, almost suffocating with joy, and U. S. listeners heard him, via short wave, broadcast a triumphant reference to his "divine commission." Benito Mussolini had already received a gushing letter Friend Hitler had dispatched by air to Rome, and now the Führer telegraphed to the Duce, "I shall never forget this...
...fellows who got excited over this incident were the radio commentators, who broadcast from Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and a few other points; also the rewrite men and telegraph editors of the big-town papers (your kind of "big town"). The further away the more excited they...
...musical technician Composer Hindemith can give cards & spades to most of his contemporaries. In 1936 he was to have introduced one of his larger compositions at a London broadcast, but the death of King George V caused the British Broadcasting Corp. to ask for more appropriate music. Hindemith, who was to appear as viola soloist, could find nothing appropriate to play. Two days before the broadcast he gave up the search, decided to compose something himself for the occasion. Result: his Funeral Music, composed in a single...
Besides WAAB in Boston, the broadcast will be heard over stations in Hartford, Waterbury, Lowell, Fall River, New Bedford, Laconia, and Augusta...