Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deadlocked in conference with the Senate over funds to help run the District of Columbia (payroll: 11,000 workers), with an ultimatum that the sum be not more than $5,000,000 for fiscal 1940. Virginia's Senator Glass was equally adamant on not less than $6,500,000. Washington bankers offered the District credit...
Last week CBS's best "prestige program," Columbia Workshop, celebrated its third birthday on the air by inaugurating a Festival (Thursdays, 10 p. m. E. D. S. T.) of 13 broadcasts. Eight are the pick of the 140 radio plays the Workshop has done since its beginning. Five are new ones, among them plays by Dorothy Parker, Lord Dunsany, William Saroyan...
...which also graduated an even more celebrated member, Orson Welles-it was run for a time by handsome, long-armed William N. Robson, CBS staff director, who used such sound-effects as knifing a watermelon to sound like a stabbing. Later the Workshop became a laboratory for all of Columbia's crack directors. Reis, now a writer-director for Paramount in Hollywood, will direct three of the plays in the Festival; Robson, one. Most famed of the Workshop's plays. Archibald MacLeish's The Fall of the City, goes on the air September 28. Other good bets...
...felt it so strongly I just burst!" she says. "I got busy." Soon, after running up quite a telephone bill, she had a committee organized-Red-fearing Laborites William Green and Matthew Woll, Redbaiting Dean William Russell of Columbia University Teachers College, TVA's Foe Wendell Willkie. Soon contributions trickled in (from $1 to $1,000) for a radio venture called U. S. Drama, Inc., to foster 15 (time free) programs dedicated to preserving "the true spirit of Americanism . . . the blessing of free initiative...
...week the Federation urged its 60 affiliated groups to campaign against the use in schools of textbooks which carry anti-advertising propaganda. With its message went a pamphlet attacking a text which the Federation considers particularly obnoxious: An Introduction to Problems of American Culture by Professor Harold Rugg of Columbia Teachers College...