Word: networks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bureaus throughout the country. Their names are never known. But their bureau chiefs and inspectors must be known. Director Hoover has a teletype system to all bureau headquarters and D. O. I. men are encouraged to use the long distance telephone like grain speculators. Through this high-speed network Director Hoover began converging some 30 operatives on the scene of the crime. From Washington, Assistant Director Harold Nathan flew to Louisville to co-ordinate the search. Inspector H. H. Clegg sped from Washington to take care of the Nashville end of the investigation. From Chicago hurried one of the littlest...
Also he tied up long-term contracts with Guy Earl's station KNX in Hollywood, Stanley Hubbard's KSTP in St. Paul. From a slowstart, Transradio rolled up many a potent client-the Michigan Network, the Yankee Network in New England, WLS in Chicago, KWK in St. Louis...
...sums ranging from $15 a week for Caspar, Wyo. to $1,000 a week for Yankee Network, the stations receive up to 50,000 words a day of finished news stories, ready for reading by the announcer. At almost any hour the station chooses, it can have enough fresh news for a 15-minute broadcast. It can, and occasionally does, scoop the official Press-Radio Bureau on such news as the Stoll kidnapping, the assassination of King Alexander, the extradition of Bruno Richard Hauptmann...
Boris Alexander, foreign news commentator for the Yankee Network, will address the Liberal Club on "The Inside Story on Missouri Politics" at a closed meeting next Thursday, October 25, at 7.30 o'clock in Adams E-11. The meeting will be open only to the first fifteen members of the Club to appear. Any men wishing to become members who appear will be admitted...
...East Texas Field is a perfect network of secret pipe lines, bypasses and other ingenious devices of knavery. Everybody knows it. Administrator Ickes has declared that if oilmen would furnish the evidence they have in their hands he could cut off every drop of hot oil in 48 hours. Oilmen swear they have turned in enough evidence to convict half the population of Texas but nothing is done...