Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tradition of the ancient bells of the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow in London is that anyone born within reach of their chimes is a Cockney. The chimes are also used during British Broadcasting Corp.'s medium-wave broadcasts in German, and lately in Germany anyone within reach of them has been in danger of having trouole with the Gestapo...
...surprise and indignation to Nazidom. In March the Nazis decided to fight fire with fire. "Our enemies," went the Nazi boast, "will soon realize that we are superior to them in the ether as well as in the air." On the day of the Memel occupation, Germany inaugurated medium-wave broadcasts in English, directed at England. The first "Heer iss Hamburg" bulletin depicted Nazi Memel as a "hurricane of happiness...
Last week, inaugurating a recorded series of NEC get-acquainted interviews with Cabinet members on the workings of their departments, the voice of the President spoke over 150 local U. S. radio stations, and it left no doubt as to what the President's favorite publicity medium is. From one of the sturdiest planks in George Washington's parting platform ("In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion be enlightened") the President dived overboard with his biggest splash for radio. Said...
Busy with his Forty Years of Psychic Research at the time he heard this, Author Garland discovered too late that Gregory Parent "had passed into the 'fourth dimension.' " But for pan royalties in the present book a medium attempted to con-tact the Parents in the spirit world...
...medium used only an aluminum megaphone. When she held it to her breast, Garland heard a high squeaky voice. He rigged up an amplifier, shut the medium in a room where she could not hear what he asked the spirits. Once he put a lollypop in her mouth so she could not talk for them. The spirits squeaked on. Garland conversed with ghosts of Henry Fuller, an old friend, Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jack London ("Why not Columbus?" asked one irritated ghost). Violet Parent and an assortment of dead Indians, padres and conquistadors, who told him where more crosses could...