Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cruel & Unusual. Next day the broadcasters were jabbed again, and in similar fashion, by FCCommissioner Charles R. Denny, who made the crack of the convention: "I take this occasion to deny that the commission is planning to punish large numbers of wayward broadcasters by forcing them to listen to their own stations two hours every day. This would be clearly unconstitutional, under the Eighth Amendment, as cruel and unusual punishment...
...Dixon's the Mooney four last week came up with more fresh musical ideas in an evening than most full-size bands get in a season. Bandsmen like Duke Ellington and players from other orchestras dropped in after hours to listen. Not since the wonderful first days of the Benny Goodman quartet had they heard the unit discipline that keeps all four men inside the same melodic scheme, yet leaves each musician free to create a succession of original and often exciting figures...
...Whiteman had signed them for a 13-week spot on the ABC network beginning this week, intends to announce each program himself. Says he: "For four or five years we've had nothing but screaming. It's almost unexplainable the way a crowd will quiet down and listen to Joe and his boys. I'll bet they'd listen for an hour without making a noise if they didn't have to let their breath out now and then. They're the greatest musical group I've heard in the last ten years...
...outlook isn't brilliant for those who have neither instruments nor radios. There's nothing for them except parlor games like the one where a group of enthusiasts gather together and see who can listen to the "Jazz At The Philharmonic" Album Number Three the longest without screaming. Oh yes, if three dollars are available any given Saturday, you can always hear the Football Band's trumphet section give out with its "fight" cheer...
...Government would not listen. The crowd's patience changed, to sullenness, to anger; shouts became a frenzied roar. Socialist Vice Premier Pietro Nenni tried to mollify them. Later, a shirtless young man in blue overalls said...