Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting: "It is our policy not to sell time for political broadcasts until after the party conventions next summer. We will not allow dramatization of political issues if time is bought after the conventions...
Last month the Republican Committee went to the two great broadcasting chains, Columbia and National, asked to buy time on the air to present its skits. Last week the correspondence showing how the Com mittee met refusal in both quarters served as advance publicity to gain more attention for the Republican drama than if it had been broadcast from coast to coast. Excerpts from the correspondence...
...fine controversial foreword WGN (Chicago Tribune), an independent station, put four Republican skits on the air. The Press printed the dialog next day in snatches, in chunks, in toto. The "March of Time" told the story on the air next evening, broadcasting most of one skit over the same Columbia network which had rejected it as a paying customer. Columnists and editorial writers loudly discussed the "suppression...
...East in 1922 on the brake rods of a transcontinental freight train. Son of a poverty-plagued Presbyterian minister, he odd-jobbed his way through Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., washing his own clothes, living at times in a tent. Burning for a big university degree, he arrived at Columbia Law School with 6? in his pocket. Before he graduated high in his Class of 1925 he had written a legal text book for a correspondence course. In his last year he taught three courses on the side...
This study has been under progress for a year and a half in a score of colleges in the east under the direction of Lincoln D. Hale, with the cooperation of Phillips Brooks House. Besides Harvard, other colleges included are Dartmouth, Bates, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and others...