Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have no sympathy whatever for a prisoner who squealed on his buddies or who sold them out for his own benefit. We should throw the book at him and disgrace him. I have much sympathy for those who, under torture, gave the Reds "military information" of the kind we broadcast to the four winds in our magazines and newspapers. I understand and feel sorry for those who signed germ-warfare confessions or broadcast phony peace appeals. But the ones for whom I am really sorry are the boys who clammed up and took it, refusing to sign anything...
...traffic direction to set the cops free, and the Civil Guard freely handed out Mausers and officers' commissions (instead of pay) to the volunteers. The President's U.S. -born wife Karen lent a hand with the dishwashing at the general staff headquarters mess, and President Figueres himself broadcast a heads-up message to the people: "We don't scare with the splattering of bullets...
Margaret Knight, fortyish, wife of a psychology professor at Aberdeen University and herself a part-time lecturer on the subject, had asked the BBC if she might broadcast her views on what she called "scientific humanism." The BBC duly scheduled her for three talks on its Home Service. Her subject: "Morals Without Religion." Mrs. Knight's first broadcast drew some criticism. Her second lifted the roof of Broadcasting House...
...conservative Daily Telegraph snorted at the idea that a question of free speech was involved. Atheistic views, it held, are no more entitled to broadcast time than a defense of polygamy, homosexuality, or Communism. The conservative Daily Mail did not agree. "Christianity is not so weak a faith that its adherents should run screaming from those who attack it," proclaimed the Mail on its front page. "Mrs. Knight has perhaps shocked a number of people into thinking for themselves." The liberal Star came out against the BBC; the conservative Standard and News both defended public airing of Mrs. Knight...
...Burnett Magruder, radio and TV coordinator for the Louisville Council of Churches, told the Louisville Ministerial Association that they are too casual about broadcasting and telecasting. "The Protestant clergy is in danger of taking a colorless, common-denominator approach. Ministers do not evaluate [broadcast] time as highly as they should. The modern minister is skillful in the art of almost saying something...