Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three weeks in office had given President João Café Filho the inside details he needed to judge Brazil's economic plight. Last week, in an emotion-choked broadcast over all the country's radio stations, he laid the somber facts on the line. Brazil is in a "dreadful crisis," and the public has to face it. Revelations, all dated from the regime of Getulio Vargas, whose suicide brought Café Filho to power...
...other side of the fence, the Democratic National Committee was preparing for the formal opening of its campaign with appropriate war dances at Indianapolis on Sept. 16. Warming up, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore made a nationally broadcast answer to President Eisenhower's report on the 83rd Congress. Gore charged the Administration with "weakness, timidity and vacillation" on important issues, e.g., world trade. In Chicago Adlai Stevenson told the A.F.L. electrical workers' convention that "this has been a year of futility-or worse-in meeting ... the problem of labor-management relationship...
Card Game. Ike's first chore was a nationwide television broadcast. He spent two days with speechwriters, laboriously polishing a text he had no intention of using. One day last week, an hour before the broadcast, the President arrived at a side door of Denver's KLZ. In the main studio, Ike's TV Adviser Robert Montgomery checked and rechecked equipment and staging. Fifteen minutes before air time, the President posed for still photographers and a cameraman asked him to say something so it would look as if he were delivering his speech. "What...
Zachariades carried his campaign against Ploumbides right up to the end. After Ploumbides was found guilty and confined to a sanatorium to await his execution, Zachariades broadcast taunts at the Greek police: "Why does Ploumbides live? He will be taken secretly out of Greece to reap his reward for betrayal of the Communist Party...
Health officials asked local TV and radio stations for help. Hourly appeals were broadcast, asking wedding guests to report for examination. Many of the guests had left town: some were as far away as Hawaii. By last week the number of typhoid victims had climbed to ten. One of them, eleven-year-old Tim Nahm, had died. Of the 300-odd guests only 231 were accounted...