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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This war of violence was the culmination of half a century of economic struggle. Since the "milk war" of 1883 there has been little peace in the milkshed. When farmers got high prices for their milk, dealers were squeezed between production prices and the unwillingness of the public to pay more than 13-14? a quart. When production prices were down (due either to competition between the States or general overproduction) dealers and handlers were in clover while farmers pastured in barren fields...
Last fortnight, however, the Hobby Lobby got NBC into the law courts. It all stemmed from the preparations for the July 19 program. Someone at Young & Rubicam's, the ad agency producing the show, had heard about a printing executive in Philadelphia, name of Klein, whose hobby was hypnotism. Arrangements were made immediately: Hypnotist Howard Klein was going to hypnotize someone right in the studio. It seemed like a swell idea at the time. Mr. Klein, a great hand at house parties, was delighted. He sent little printed cards to a lot of his friends, telling them...
...their wares abroad. No station yet has a sponsor, probably because distance broadcasting has not yet had an opportunity to prove its commercial soundness. It merely meant that the X, for experimental, in short-wave call letters was becoming a thing of the past as fast as FCC got around to approving new call letters. By last week FCC had got around to approving 13 new names, still had one, Columbia's W2XE, to go. Most venerable of the call letters already changed were those of Westinghouse's W8XK, the short-wave partner of Pittsburgh's KDKA...
...William Lamb owed to his mother, Lady Melbourne. She presented her husband with six children, few of whom were his. William was universally supposed to be the son of Lord Egremont, who, scandal had it, bought Lady Melbourne from Lord Coleraine for ?13,000, of which Lady Melbourne got a cut. ("Your mother is a whore," a young Cambridge friend once shouted at William's brother George...
...believe he was fond of treachery. . . ." But he regretted that his mother should "conspire against his wife with that wife's lover." After Caroline wrote Glenarvon (a novel about herself and Byron), its succes de scandale got her ostracized. She took to frequenting other literary persons, among them William Blake and Bulwer Lytton, with whom she had an affair. Said William Blake: "There is a great deal of kindness in that lady." Said Bulwer Lytton: "Wil liam Lamb was particularly kind...