Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alertness and dispatch of the Columbia Broadcasting System in sending the whole nation an account of the Zangara shooting by one who witnessed it at Miami surpass even Fred W. Mizer's unnewshawkliness in failing to recount the affair as it was happening to the audience of WQAM, 1,000-watts (TIME...
Congratulations are due CBS. Edwin K. Cohan, technical chief of the chain, on vacation in Miami, reversed loops to New York, offered President-elect Roosevelt use of Columbia facilities, obtained a statement from him for the radio audience, secured an authentic witness, canceled New York broadcasts interfering, notified stations, announced the broadcast in record time for network alignment...
...Despite Columbia Broadcasting's discontinuance, R. C. A. Victor, General Electric, Westinghouse and a few other broadcasters of experimental television will keep...
...Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc ] now feel that further operations with the present facilities offer little possibility of contribution to the art of television, and we have decided to suspend temporarily our program."-Edwin K. Cohan, Columbia's technical director, explaining why Columbia discontinued television service last week...
Said Dr. John Kelley Norton of Teachers College, Columbia: "Teachers will oppose the efforts of any selfish group to create a peasant class and impose a peasant education in the U. S. . . . We are going to have an organization that can give blow for blow and ask no quarter...