Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sponsor a lecture by Earl Browder was "withheld" from the John Reed Society by the Corporation at its meeting yesterday until the problem of granting the use of halls was "further explored by a special committee of the Corporation meeting with members of the Faculties," the Corporation announced last night...
Thereupon Elliott tried a bold stunt. He offered to hire many of the existing MBS coast-to-coast wire circuits for two hours a night, 8-10 EST. The answer was No. So last week Elliott went to work on an even bolder enterprise-a brand new national network...
...business Jan. 1 with some 100 stations. All last week at The Blackstone in Chicago, the lure of Elliott's name, plus the promise of some 60 hours a week of steady if cut-rate business, kept customers coming. B-S-H had already contracted for 15 premium night-time hours a week; Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. scheduled its noisy commentator, Elliott Roosevelt himself, on Transcontinental. Dorothy Thompson was courted; Boake Carter and Father Coughlin were possibilities. There were no such headliners as Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy or Kate Smith in sight, but Transcontinental had hope. At week...
...ceramics, water colors to oils. No prodigy, she had the varying interests of a normal, healthy child; through them all kept the Zorach household overrun with animals. Her long-suffering family did not even rebel when she brought home a baby skunk, though somehow it escaped during the night...
...smoldering cigarette on a couch in the 60 Mt. Auburn St. rat-house brought eight pieces of fire apparatus screaming through Saturday night 10 o'clock revelry, only to find that the janitor, Daniel Sheehan, had already extinguished the flicker...