Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike its competitors MBS started through necessity. Back in 1934 Gordon Baking Co., which was sponsoring the Lone Ranger out of Detroit, wanted to hit the New York and Chicago markets, with no stops at aerial way stations. Neither NBC nor CBS could render the spot coverage. But WOR, then of Newark, and WGN of Chicago agreed to provide a dual hookup. The Gordon method of radio advertising appealed to many another sponsor...
...Prime Ministry of Australia. He is 46-year-old Arthur William ("Artie the Artful") Fadden, two years ago a modest backbencher in the Canberra Parliament, last year Australia's Treasurer, this spring Acting Prime Minister. Last week when, to no one's surprise, big, glib Robert Gordon ("Honest Bob") Menzies bowed himself out of the Prime Ministry, Artie the Artful bowed right...
Abandoning his tour of Western Austral ia and summoning his Cabinet, Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies hurried back to Melbourne this week. The chips were down in the Far East ; the next thing to be seen was Japan's hand. Bob Menzies said that the people of Australia were standing with a catch in their throats in the most vital hour of their history. "In the mercy of God bombs have not yet fallen in this country. But they...
With these words the Church of England last week set at rest the souls of any of its communicants who were bothered about Britain's alliance with the U.S.S.R. They were written by the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 76, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England. Cosmo Gordon Lang has often denounced the "anti-God atheism of Moscow" and he helped maneuver his King into abdicating rather than permit a divorced woman to sit on the throne of England. But Cosmo Cantuar is a shrewd politician. When compromise is expedient he does not flinch...
...Great Lakes; in two out of three races; on the Sound, off Larchmont, N.Y. Strange to the Sound skippers were the boats; strange to the Lake skippers were the waters. Tied for individual honors with 18 points each were New York's Corny Shields and Ohio's Gordon Douglass...