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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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By last week most of the first-magnitude folk in radio's great free-show firmament were in their places for the long winter evenings: Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy. The Philharmonic had arranged to broadcast on tour; a hallowed hush awaited Arturo Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rainbow's End | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Despite its genuine humanity, its touches of humor and moments of drama, They Knew What They Wanted is sometimes awkward, fumbling, slow-moving; and the present production brings out the worst in it. Where the original company gave it the lift that a fine orchestra can give to a fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

If the winner faints, cusses or thanks Providence the audience hears none of it, because NBC dares not take the responsibility for airing what goes on at rainbow's end. In Woodcarver Drouin's case, Ben Grauer reported that he had said: "I ought to buy that boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rainbow's End | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Secretary Ickes: "If the lady wants peace, I wonder why she came here?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Chance to Heckle | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

But if Franklin Roosevelt had not said no, politics was just what Secretary Ickes would have discussed. Topic originally scheduled for debate was the third term.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Chance to Heckle | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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