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...development of Ethiopia would in any case require "fifty years of sacrifice before reaping the commensurate reward." Perfectly aware of this, Dictator Mussolini last week loosed the frenzy required to build empires, with sirens, church bells, battle planes thundering over every Italian city of importance and a nationwide hookup of loudspeakers in public squares which enabled 20,000,000 Italians to hear him in the open, women & children harkening on the fringes of massed male blackshirts or turning on the radio at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Marie Antoinette & Sanctions | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Clashing over the much-disputed question of whether or not Hawaii should be admitted to the Union as a state, the Debating Council opposed the University of Hawaii last Saturday night over a trans-Pacific hookup. The Harvard debaters Frederick DeW. Bolman, Jr. '35 and Thomas H. Quinn '36 argued for the negative side, while their Hawalian opponents John Casstevens and Robert North upheld the affirmative in the no decision debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOLMAN AND QUINN FACE HAWAIIANS OVER RADIO | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

Broadcasting for the first time in Harvard history over a trans-Pacific hookup, the Debating Council will clash with the University of Hawaii from 6 to 6.30 o'clock tonight on the subject: "Resolved, That Hawaii be admitted to the Union as a state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS WILL CLASH WITH HAWAII TONIGHT | 4/13/1935 | See Source »

...lately been specializing on the South where Negro delegates to the Republican convention are to be had for a price. Last fortnight disgruntled Southern Democrats had a chance to look Republican Fish over at swank Aiken, S. C. Last week he spoke by radio over a Southern hookup, inviting all those who were "deceived and disgusted" with their national Administration to "cross over" to Candidate Fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Stirrings | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

That was Huey Long's cue to howl that the Administration had now decided to "turn on the heat from all sides" against him. From National Broadcasting Co. he asked for 45 minutes instead of a half-hour radio time on a coast-to-coast hookup. "I'll cover Johnson's case from Hell to breakfast!" cried he. "There will be 25,000,000 people listening to me tonight. Give me 15 more minutes and I'll have the whole world listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Pied Pipers | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

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