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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goods and services it wanted and make jobs for themselves and others. . . . Now I take it that we Americans lived that way because we wanted to live that way. We still like it better than any other way. We know there are wrongs to right. Only the misguided will claim that this system is perfect. . . . The record proves, however, that our system gives the most personal liberty to human beings and offers on the whole the highest possible standard of life to the greatest numbers...
Carousing at a Nice festival, an engagingly flip U. S. detective named Harwood (Edmund Lowe) discovers a corpse, which presently vanishes. Before Harwood can launch a search, a beautiful U. S. insurance claim investigator named Caryl Fenton (Constance Cummings) drags him away to look for some lost jewels in Scotland. When the train is wrecked on the way, Harwood discovers the missing body in the wreckage, shrewdly suspects that the wreck was intentional to hide the murder. He bets the French police inspector on the scene $5.000 that he will find the criminal. There follows, as in The Thirty-Nine...
...honor of being second . . . fell to KDKA of Pittsburgh . . . and, though it has erroneously claimed and been credited with priority among broadcasters, it is still entitled to a place of distinction. . . ." On Aug. 31, 1920, the Detroit station announced returns of the primary elections in Michigan. On Nov. 2, 1920, the Pittsburgh station broadcast returns of the Presidential election. Westinghouse then continued with semiweekly broadcasts, until Dec. i, 1920 when daily programs commenced. Neither of the rivals can claim priority except as a commercial station. Lee de Forest broadcast the voice of Enrico Caruso from the top of the Metropolitan...
...broadcasting.'" Unable to get around the solid fact of the Detroit station's priority on the calendar, KDKA argued that it was operating under its present call letters 16 months before WWJ was assigned its present letters on March 3, 1922. Against this was WWJ's claim that it had received its third license (in October, 1921) before KDKA applied for its first. KDKA was, in fact, the eighth U. S. station to be Federally licensed...
...newsrooms of William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News last February. The management slipped enough writers through the picket lines to fill the News's columns. The mechanical staff stuck by its contracts and jobs. Guildmen circularized and picketed News advertisers & subscribers. Now, after six months, they claim that they have managed to reduce News circulation some 50%, appreciably curtail advertising lineage. Nevertheless, the Milwaukee Wisconsin News continues to appear on the newsstands six afternoons a week...