Word: fess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much in need of an organizing genius as did the cinema industry when it hired Will Hays 15 years ago. Educators have long been unsatisfied with the radio as an educational medium. Two years ago they gave the industry a scare by plumping in great numbers for the unsuccessful Fess and Wagner-Hatfield bills calling for a Federal allocation of wave bands for educational purposes. This year NBC is devoting a record total of 4,360 hours, 44% of the network's total broadcasting time, to a miscellany of speeches, lectures, concerts, meetings, all labelled "educational programs." Most...
...75th birthday, at Yellow Springs, Ohio's onetime Senator Simeon Davison Fess proudly showed newshawks a stack of firewood he had sawed, said he was still working on his four-volume history of Ohio. Exulted he: "I work every day, sleep like a deer, eat like a bear...
...suit themselves. Director Levering Tyson of the Rockefeller-endowed National Advisory Council on Radio in Education had warned the 500 educators invited to the Conference that "any discussion of such controversial subjects as the allocations of wave lengths will be scrupulously avoided." Two years ago Congress overwhelmingly rejected the Fess and Wagner-Hatfield bills calling for a definite allocation of wave bands for educational purposes. Last week more cold water was thrown on that hope when Chief Engineer T. A. M. Craven of the Federal Communications Commission flatly told an engineers' sub-committee of the Conference: "In talking with...
...this I now vow to wash my hands and leave it all to Julian Coolidge's Bellboys and more subtle wits. For well I remember last year how sore at my heart I was to have a little putt putt thrust in my face and asked to " 'fess up" when I knew nothing more about it then than I do now. As the ancients would say, 'Twas as if the officer were milking the he-goat and Apted were holding the sieve...
...handwriting on the wall." Exulted Chicago Publisher Frank Knox: "Thank God, the people of Rhode Island can't be bought!" Bubbled Maine's Senator Hale: "It shows what's coming at the next election." Only discordant Republican voice was that of Ohio's onetime Senator Fess moaning in political limbo: "I don't see how the strongest Republican . . . can beat the weakest Democrat with nearly $5,000,000,000 at his disposal...