Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon was taken aback. He told Morhouse that the TV time was booked, that it would look strange to cancel his TV broadcast at the last minute without explanation. Nixon added that he would be willing to call off the telecast if Morhouse insisted but would have to explain publicly just why. The point: loyal G.O.P. voters in upstate New York might well resent the cancellation, not to mention the slight to national party unity. Morhouse hurriedly called back to say go ahead with the telecast. Right on schedule, Nixon delivered his TV speech-which even stony-hearted critics ruled...
...dispute flared into the open during a campaign broadcast when Furcolo showed up late and drew the verbal wrath of Kennedy. Unfortunately for both men, several reporters overheard the exchange and gave it wide coverage in the press...
While Nelson Rockefeller paraded his best vote-luring grins on the hustings far north, brother Winthrop, the Arkansas cow baron, slouched into Dallas for the Texas State Fair, broadcast the joys of life as a simple farmer. "I never," he drawled, "want to go back to the city." Winnie, amiably noncommittal about his brother's try for New York Governor ("Most of my Democratic friends think Nelson has a real chance"), slyly dashed, for the time being, any stray ideas that he too might have political hankerings: "The state constitution requires that a man be a resident of Arkansas...
...passengers, the broadcast said, 49 were "foreign friends who had visited China on invitation and foreign experts on their way home from China." Four West Germans and one British subject were reported among the dead. Names of the foreigners aboard were not disclosed in the Peiping broadcast...
This morning a broadcast from WBZ from UP announced that Governor Furcolo had ordered all official flags in Massachusetts to be flown at half-staff. This noon's broadcast explains that it was not the Governor but the Commissioner of Administration and Finance who ordered all Massachusetts state (not national) flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days. Through a telephone call to the United Press in Boston I have learned that the Commissioner issued this order to show respect to the late Pope Pius...