Word: mullen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Farm & Home Hour had its small beginnings over Pittsburgh's KDKA in 1923. It was the brainchild of a big, burly studio pianist named Frank Mullen, who was at the time all choked up with nostalgia for the fields of South Dakota where he spent his boyhood. Mullen's system was to read all the farm bulletins he could lay hands on, then whack out a few tunes to fill in. Immediately popular in the Pittsburgh area, the Hour was adapted to NBC specifications in 1926. Since 1928, when the Hour went on a national hookup...
Shrewd Frank Mullen early secured for the Hour the cooperation of the Department of Agriculture, the National Grange, the Farmers' Union, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National 4-H Club, the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities. As Secretary, Henry Wallace used its facilities over 100 times to speak to his farm constituency...
Shrieking prison sirens roused the countryside. A State police plane roared overhead. Coast Guard cutters put-putted up & down river. Bloodhounds sniffed along the western shore. It was still only 9 a.m. when William Mullen, veteran woodsman and member of the Palisades Interstate Park Police, leading a posse along the side of Hook Mountain, heard a noise in the brush and saw a flash of white shirt. "You're surrounded," a posseman hollered. "Put up your hands." All fight gone out of them, Riordan and McGale stumbled out, gave...
...Vickery (on leave from the Navy), Jerry Land's right-hand man, is in charge of ship construction. Captain Edward J. Macauley (who replaces Lawyer Max O'Rell Truitt on April 1) is a specialist on ship design, will be assigned accordingly. Bushy-browed, big-nosed Thomas Mullen Woodward, Philadelphia lawyer, does the Commission's legal jobs, is charged with enforcement of control of foreign commerce. Ruddy, white-haired ex-Congressman John J. Dempsey handles the Commission's business affairs, walks around amid a litter of real-estate deeds, letters from Chambers of Commerce in cities...
Catholic liberal editors admitted that there was not much they could do about it if church leaders should give MacManus the go-ahead. MacManus' self-styled "No 1 Man" is Frank Jacob Mullen, who lately resigned as top ad salesman for the Satevepost to promote MacManus' proposed Catholic newspaper merger. Said he: "It doesn't make a hell of a lot of difference what editors think...