Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agriculture Claude Raymond Wickard spoke from Washington, then an announcer in Indiana described the Secretary's Carroll County farm while Wickard livestock supplied a grunting, snuffling obbligato. From Indiana the program wandered to a Georgia vegetable garden, a poultry house in California, a wheat field in North Dakota. As usual the show was neither cute nor corny. It aimed to tell the farmer about his business, got down to earth as speedily as a gopher...
...National Farm & Home Hour had its small beginnings over Pittsburgh's KDKA in 1923. It was the brainchild of a big, burly studio pianist named Frank Mullen, who was at the time all choked up with nostalgia for the fields of South Dakota where he spent his boyhood. Mullen's system was to read all the farm bulletins he could lay hands on, then whack out a few tunes to fill in. Immediately popular in the Pittsburgh area, the Hour was adapted to NBC specifications in 1926. Since 1928, when the Hour went on a national hookup...
...chinned, 50-year-old Dr. L. (for Lawrence) Wendell Fifield, for the past 14 years pastor of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church. Downtown churches, such as his in Seattle, have special, tough problems. Dr. Fifield tackled his with the same zeal which, during an earlier pastorate in South Dakota, earned him a State handball championship. Well-liked by men as well as women, he reduced his church's indebtedness by $116,000, brought nearly 1,600 new members into the congregation (now over 2,000). He built a radio audience all over the Northwest not only...
There were many to approve. Just before the Seattle convention Jimmy Petrillo had forbidden NBC, in its broadcast of the launching of the U.S.S. South Dakota (TIME, June 16), to air so much as one toot by the high-school band from Sioux Falls, S. Dak. that played for the occasion. It took appeals from the State's Governor and two Senators, and finally a telephone call from A.F. of L.'s William Green to placate Boss Petrillo...
Major credit for the work so far done goes to quiet, wiry little Floyd Wesley Reeves, director of labor supply and training under Sidney Hillman. Born on a South Dakota ranch, a crack distance runner in high school and college, he is now technically a professor of educational administration at University of Chicago. He went to Washington on leave as chairman of the President's Advisory Committee on Education in 1936, has been there ever since...