Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Gallup and other polls continued to show a majority cross-section of the U. S. for repeal, Congressional mail ranged 10-to-1 to 1,000-to-1 against. Even discounting half that mail as inspired by such professional rainmakers as Father Coughlin, there were enough sane, sincere letters in the downpour to give shivers to Congressmen, notoriously the most mail-pervious group...
...Cross Old Hand...
Professor Cross is an old hand at this game. It was last spring that he began writing experimental news broadcasts in German for W2XAL, a non-commercial station owned and operated by the World-Wide Broadcasting Foundation...
...present broadcasts in German "are aimed at Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries," Professor Cross explains. The program is on the air between 4 and 5 o'clock Monday afternoons, on a wave length of 11,70 kilocycles or 25.4 meters...
Professor Cross's background for his new avocation goes beyond the academic. For six years after graduating from Harvard he served in the foreign service of the Department of Commerce; part of that time as commercial attache at Brussels and the Hague, and for the remainder as the Department's European chief...