Word: davision
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Voice of the Midwest. The trust of the U.S. people in Elmer Davis today is a tribute 1) to the power of radio, 2) to the power of common sense. Until he began his news broadcasts, Davis was unknown to the population at large.
At war's beginning, few men who wrote the news, and fewer still who broadcast it, could resist the purple technique of dire warnings, manic-depressive cycles, sweeping prognostications. Many a news commentator offered his audience little more than a 15-minute nervous breakdown. Not so Elmer Davis. His...
Ten years on the Times let Davis develop his tastes. He covered the Ford peace ship, the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, the Harding arms conference, the famed Zev-Papyrus match race, wrote everything from editorials to whimsy. By 1924, when his third novel was published, he was ready to try free...
In the summer of 1939, with World War II only days away, Davis was at his summer home in Mystic, Conn., writing the last chapters of a mystery novel for the Saturday Evening Post. He was a respected, reasonably successful author. He had his summer home, and a winter apartment...
By Pearl Harbor time, Davis had 12,500,000 listeners to his five-minute news summary and a $53,000-a-year contract. His studio estimated that half of all U.S. families heard him at least once a week. When Franklin Roosevelt tied all his muddling, uncoordinated news and propaganda...