Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
First attempt to teach schoolmen radio technique was made by Ohio State Uni-versity which since 1928 has had a workshop for radio broadcasting. Last week the Conference had news of a novel organization called University Broadcasting Council. Set up in Chicago two years ago by the University of Chicago's Radio Director Allen Miller, the Council helps educators from Chicago, Northwestern and DePaul universities not only to solicit radio time and to split the expenses of broadcasting but also to write good scripts. With a $55,000 budget, Director Miller reported, the Council had provided its members with...
...give a four-year course, grant A. B. degrees. Though few Sarah Lawrence girls avail themselves of the longer course, under Miss Warren the enrolment has grown, to 277, tuition has been shaved from $1,800 to $1,700. President Warren's last big day in the news came when she forbade students to hitchhike to Yonkers for the afternoon for fear that they might be kidnapped. That provoked a memorable controversy between President Warren and the Mayor of Yonkers. To replace Board Chairman MacCracken, Sarah Lawrence last week elected Dr. Elliott Dunlap Smith, master of Yale...
Energetic Mrs. Belmont had extended her plans this year with chairmen in 65 communities of three states, with the weekly Opera news Bulletin to members, with Metropolitan Operagrams, a 48-page book listing the plots, biographical notes, bibliography and available phonograph records on the operas and composers of the 1936-37 repertory. Hoping for a large Christmas-present sale of coupon books, she expects the Guild to sponsor a performance of Aïda for children next March...
While Briggs and Motor Products do not compete in the accessory trade they do have one thing in common: labor trouble. Indeed, Detroit newspapers no longer consider a Briggs strike news until it approaches in violence the 1933 walkout which forced Henry Ford to shut down. In the opinion of Labor, working conditions in the Briggs plants are a disgrace to Detroit. When Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy was Detroit's mayor, a citizens' committee was appointed to look into Briggs labor policies with results by no means complimentary to the management. A Motor Products strike...