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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to the last three lines centre column p. 39, TIME, May 24: you say the Coronation program was "the longest continuous program in radio history." We question this in view of the fact that on March 24, 1934, General Petroleum Corp. of California through its advertising agency Smith & Drum, Inc. introduced Mobilgas to the Pacific Coast with a radio program over all stations of the [then] Columbia Don Lee network which ran from 7:30 a.m. until midnight. The first 9½ hours and the last 3½ hours of this broadcast were continuous. Occasional interruptions between...
...Steel plants remained in partial operation. These as well as Youngstown plants which were held by company maintenance men, were soon virtually in a state of siege. The size and isolation of the plants, which made sit-down strikes virtually impossible because of the difficulty of provisioning strikers (TIME, March 1), made equally difficult the job of feeding company men in the plants. Soon Republie had airplanes shuttling back and forth, landing in the yard of one plant, dropping food on others where landing was not possible. Airplanes of the strikers performed fancy aerobatics trying to drive off the company...
...married her, but last March he ar rived in Manhattan, brideless and damning a U. S. Consul in Jugoslavia. "He got to have proof can I support her. I tell him about Wiseman. He no listen. I been to Washington to the State Department. I been to Bob Marshall.* I been to the Alaska Congressman.† I got a lawyer. We telephone Zagreb, Jugoslavia. He cost me $34. We sending telegrams four times. I go to Seattle, get affidavits from seven wholesale houses which sell to me in Wise man how much I buy. I come back to Washington again...
What galled unofficial Italian observers most about Spain's White Book was not the evidence of Italian intervention, but the startling evidence of cowardice and continued poor morale in the ranks of Italian volunteers. Wrote the Italian volunteers' divisional commander. General Mancini, on March 11: "Commanders must maintain their men in the highest state of exaltation. . . . This will be easy if they are talked to frequently without ever omitting on any subject a political allusion and always evoking in the soldiers' minds II Duce...
...march to public and private cemeteries by American Legion members and others has become one of the most respected of our native rites, more solemnly carried out even than the more recently inaugurated Armistice Day observances. The contagious enthusiasm of masses of people wholeheartedly experiencing the same emotion is impressive and heartening. As long as such collective recognition of past deeds and their tragic side is periodically engaged in, there will be a strong tendency toward national stability and a level-headed outlook...