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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio Luxembourg, whose transmitter in the little grand duchy is within sight of the German border, subsided at the outbreak of the war, has not been heard since. Radio Normandie, like all other French stations, has been put under military supervision, now devotes most of its time to propaganda, none to merchandising. To supply both stations with sponsors and commercial material, U. S. agencies like J. Walter Thompson, Blackett-Sample-Hummert, and Erwin, Wasey have for the last several years been doing brisk London businesses...
Last week in London talent and adman alike twiddled, hoped that once war got in the groove, radio might again be able to sing for its supper. Radio Normandie has a snug little building around a corner from BBC's showy (and now sandbagged) Broadcasting House. Like everybody else in London, Radio Normandie's outpost dug in, fitted up a sub-basement air-raid shelter complete with telephones, desks, transcription machinery, eating, sleeping, toilet facilities for its staff of 200; a phonograph for dull hours...
Following a visit to the President (see p. 11), San Antonio's Mayor Maury Maverick announced that he favored a third term for Roosevelt "1,000%." Mayor Maverick declared that Fellow Texan Garner's "future is behind him," said: "In a time of emergency like this we cannot afford to have a man as President as old as Mr. Garner is. He is a fine Christian, water-drinking gentleman. . . . No man has ever been elected in his seventies except Harrison* and I think he caught a cold and died in office...
...Washington, D. C. luncheon, North Dakota's Senator Gerald Nye told Mrs. Borah he was pleased to see his colleague looking so fit for the neutrality fight (see p. 11). Said Mrs. Borah: "I told him so, too. I said to him, 'Bill, you look like Clark Gable.' And he said, 'Who's Clark Gable...
...letter to the London Times, Alan Patrick Herbert, M.P., Punch contributor, cracked: "Those who supported and may still support Dr. Frank Buchman will no doubt like to be reminded now of one of the Doctor's most profound and famous sayings: 'Thank God for a man like Adolf Hitler who will stand against the anti-Christ of Communism.' I am, Sir, your obedient servant...