Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, Grosvenor Dawe, director of Plain Talk Institute, called for a boycott of all advertisers sponsoring Columbia programs...
Also in Washington, Representative John L. McClellan of Arkansas announced in the House that he had inquired at the Federal Communications Commission, learned that letters and telegrams protesting the Communist broadcast were pouring in. "I denounce," cried he, "the action of the Columbia Broadcasting System for aiding and abetting a public enemy that seeks to invade this nation by the dissemination of its poisonous propaganda...
...Columbia Broadcasting System felt obliged to issue a statement explaining that it had scheduled the Browder address in accordance with its policy of granting free time to representatives of all recognized political parties. An engineer, it promised, would be ready to cut the speaker off the air instantly if he departed by so much as a word from his carefully censored text to sound the tocsin of revolt. It also announced that it had allotted Red-fearing Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. an equal amount of time on its network at the same hour next evening to answer Red Browder...
...advance publicity counted for anything, Communist Browder must have had a notable audience when he stepped up to the microphone. Some Columbia patrons were disappointed, however. In Boston it was announced in advance that seven New England stations affiliated with the system would substitute a program of dance music for the Red secretary's speech, though their listeners would hear Representative Fish's reply to it next evening. Most Pacific Coast stations also refused to broadcast the speech...
...lowest caste of India is Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, No. 1 Untouchable. This plump, cheery, bespectacled man of no caste, whose very shadow would outrage high-caste Hindus, managed to get a good education in Indian Government schools, was staked to courses at the University of London and Columbia University by the highly democratic Gaekwar of Baroda. Dr. Ambedkar is probably the only man alive who ever walked out in a huff from a private audience with the Pope of Rome. His Holiness Pius XI having heard from Dr. Ambedkar about the miseries of Indian outcastes, replied...