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Lining up a network in two hours for a remote control broadcast is a colossal news feat. Two days are the usual minimum for such a hookup...
...Reichstag fire was set by Communists, police promptly charged. Over a nationwide radio hookup the Minister of Interior for Prussia, blustering Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, cried: "The Reichstag fire was to have been the signal for the outbreak of open civil war! . . . The Communists had in readiness 'terror squads' of 200 each. . . . These were to commit their dastardly acts disguised as units of our own Nazi Storm Troops and the Stahlhelm. . . . The women and children of high Government officials were to have been kidnapped as hostages and used in the civil war as 'living shields...
...hours later Manager Mizer retrieved some of his lost ground by broadcasting over a large CBS hookup an eyewitness account of the attack...
Moonbeams entered the festivities that night. A mirror on the 64th floor and a photoelectric cell were employed to carry Mr. Doherty's voice by moonbeam power to a microphone while he spoke over a nationwide radio hookup, greeting the members of Doherty's Men's Fraternity (employes). More moonbeams were used to close a switch turning on the building's floodlights...
James Melton from Ocala, Fla. In 1929, shortly before the quartet took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over a nation-wide hookup. They broadcast for Buick too, over a midwestern hookup. With a substantial Coca-Cola contract be sides, James Melton will make an easy $100,000 this year. It enables him to live in an expensive penthouse apartment, keep a sailing yacht on the Hudson...