Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clergymen snapped at radio's religious opportunities quickly after Westinghouse began broadcasting ten years ago. Three years ago first N. B. C., then Columbia systematized radio religion and offered time to Protestants, Catholics and Jews. The three creeds took advantage of their opportunity as detailed below. Apart from such chain broadcasting are individual stations operated by churches, societies and evangelists. They number about two score...
Protestants. Protestants have taken fullest advantage of chain broadcasting. Last summer the Federal Council's (that is, N. B. C.'s) Sunday preachers were Dr. James Stanley Durkee of Brooklyn, Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman and Dr. Charles Leroy Goodell of Manhattan. This winter they have been Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling of Manhattan, Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of Manhattan. Their selection depended largely on their nearness to the main broadcasting office in Manhattan. Besides them, 286 other Protestants have taken part?occasional Sundays, at morning devotional periods, at "hymn-sing" Thursday evenings, during Lent...
Rongus resembled Samson in physique and simplicity. He was soon lost in admiration of Barzor's guile and determination, did exactly as he was told. By a complicated chain of cunning schemes they fomented unrest in Jerusalem, lured the Roman forces far from the city and were about to strike?when their necessary figurehead, the man who was to head the revolt, fell fatally ill. Then everything turned against the conspirators; the priests of the Temple made peace with Pilate; the Roman army from Syria arrived; Barzor and Rongus were captured, quickly condemned to death...
...that the collective public palate cannot long remain unjaded. "When everything is dramatic, nothing after a while is dramatic." Editor Lippmann, famed author and a co-founder of The New Republic, was lecturing at Yale University as third speaker in the journalism lecture-series established with $100,000 by Chain-Publisher Paul Block...
...month Hudson's Bay Co. passed its common and preferred dividends. Sir Robert Stevenson Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, a big stockholder, said one trouble with the company was that Canadians resented the fact that it was London-run. He urged that the company's 14 chain stores in Canada be placed in the hands of a separate company. Canadian-controlled. Governor Sale would have none of this idea. When the meeting assembled, some sulky stockholders urged an amendment providing for the immediate resignation of all directors. This was declared to be "out of order." Then...