Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past, railroad strikes have often brought White House intervention. Examples: in 1943 President Roosevelt personally worked out an agreement giving railroad workers an extra 5? an hour; in 1946 President Truman coerced a settlement by threatening, in a nationwide broadcast, to order the Army to break a railroad strike (he also proposed to Congress that strikers be drafted into the Army). One result of such presidential action was to make the National Mediation Board, set up under the Railway Labor Act, little more than a front organization, with both rail labor and management looking hungrily toward the White House...
...faced a similar demand at home for "one more conference." Most urgent of all was Britain's Harold Macmillan, whose instructions from campaigning Prime Minister Anthony Eden were to get a parley at the summit and to get it quickly-Macmillan was to announce it on a TV broadcast in midweek...
...speakers in Sanders wore tuxedos, and the entire debate was broadcast over WHRB to rekindle interest in debating...
...filmed TV series over the BBC. Called Orson Welles Sketch Book, the one-man show will feature Welles telling stories about bullfighting and black magic, or just chatting. None of the subjects seems capable of scaring the British as successfully as Welles did New Jerseyites with his Martian broadcast...
...Extension's reach extended through radio broadcasts of lectures, and next year's plans call for telecasts. Recently, an elderly woman with degrees from renowned universities heard and Extension broadcast at her home in Harwich, Mass. She enrolled, and drives over 100 miles once a week to take the courses, staying overnight in a local hotel, and driving back the next day. "It's not hard to be an optimist when someone does that," says Phelps.Extension students of all ages, say instructors, show more interest at lectures than regular college students and usually ask more questions...