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Food Administrator Claude Wickard picked a logical but startling time. Right after dinner last Sunday night, when well-stuffed U.S. citizens were ready to tune in on their favorite comedians, he went on a coast-to-coast radio hookup to spread the worst food news yet: hard & fast rationing of canned, dried and frozen fruits and vegetables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Little Citizen What Next? | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

Slated for a nation-wide hookup, ten organ recitals over the unique baroque organ in the Germanic Museum will be presented over the Columbia network on Sunday mornings from 9:15 to 9:45 o'clock by the well known organist E. Power Biggs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organ Recitals Broadcast Weekly in Germanic Museum | 9/25/1942 | See Source »

Response to the President's speeches has followed a saw-toothed graph. Two days after Pearl Harbor the President's Hooper rating skyrocketed to an alltime high of 79.0. Last fortnight, when he spoke over as great a hookup to the International Student Assembly, his Hooper fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Roosevelt's Rating | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...previous U.S. student conference has been treated to so many big-name speakers. Besides the President (who promised them post-war peace & plenty, on a national hookup), the students heard Mrs. Roosevelt ("lecturer and writer"), Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, WPB's Bill Batt, retiring Chinese Ambassador Dr. Hu Shih. In the Department of Labor's magnificent auditorium, delegates applauded speech after speech of unimpeachable commencement prose, rallying them to a United Nations victory and a just People's Peace. What they missed was a specific program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Small Seed | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...Townhall of the Air, featuring four Harvard speakers and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, as moderator, will originate from Sander Theater on September 10 and broadcast over a coast-to-coast hookup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Town Meeting of Air will Gather at Sanders Theater | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

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