Word: hookups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remarkable hookup among churchmen, politicians and pigeon-fanciers, some 3,000 pigeons winged industriously over large parts of the U. S. for several days last week. In Washington Representative Pehr G. Holmes helped Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor attach a little tube to the leg of a pigeon which promptly took off for Manhattan, carrying a message to England's grizzled old George Lansbury, onetime Laborite leader. In Philadelphia arrived two birds named Paul Revere and Betsy Ross. One fluttered aimlessly around City Hall before it was captured, handed to Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson...
...Mattis and Robert Young of the Public Speaking Department, will select two men from a competition open to all present Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. The winners of the competition will speak on the Associated Harvard Clubs program which will be broadcast throughout the world over an international hookup...
...member of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, he is advertising his city and his company by putting the little known Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on the radio in a Pittsburgh Plate Glass half hour. The program, scheduled to begin on Feb. 27, will be broadcast over a 40-station NBC hookup. An added civic note is supplied by the fact that the orchestra leader, Antonio Modarelli, is a native Pittsburgher...
...Philippine's President Manuel Quezon, China Clipper's Captain Musick, and the personified "Voices" of Pan American bases at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila. By a complicated use of short wave, all these scattered personalities chimed in with appropriate sentiments which were broadcast over a nationwide hookup. At Alameda a crowd of 20,000 clustered about a platform on the flat, sandy spit, paid less attention to the speeches than to the Clipper, which floated, its motors idling, a few yards off the ramp. There was little applause when Postmaster Farley arrived, looking glum. There was no applause...
...Stork Club (3 E. 53rd St.). Nat Brandwyne's Band and Nano Rodrige's rumba orchestra alternate for dancing. Miss Marjorie Logan, Greenwich society girl, who sang last season at the St. Regis and over a nation-wide hookup, sings at this fashionable rendez-yous...