Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief from British broadcasting, especially on Sundays, pre-war Britishers had simply to twirl their radio dials to Radio Normandie, Luxembourg, Juan-les-Pins or any of the other gay, Continental "outlaw" stations. Outlaws they were because, unlike BBC, they carried advertising. Favorites they were for variety, swing, snap-courtesy of Lux, Pepsodent, Alka-Seltzer, etc. But war put the commercial "outlaws" out of business-precariously situated Luxembourg for reasons of neutrality, Normandie and other French stations for la belle propaganda. This left blacked-out Britishers wholly at the mercy of BBC, which furnished news in the passive mood, gramophone...
...forces of at least 1,000,000 men for a period of not less than one year. It also demanded a Navy second to none, bases at Guam and Wake Islands, an impregnable Panama Canal, an Alaskan National Guard. With no less passion it asked for legislation to outlaw the Communist Party...
This was interpreted as a veiled warning that the Daladier Cabinet may soon outlaw the Communist Party altogether. Ever since the Hitler-Stalin pact was announced French Communist Deputies have been quietly resigning from the Party, hoping to keep their seats in the Chamber. The French equivalent of the American Federation of Labor, the C. G. T. (Confederation Generate du Travail) headed by Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux adopted a resolution which described Russia's gobbling up of three-fifths of Poland (see p. 29) as "a premeditated treason consummated against peace, and an act of treachery toward the proletariat...
...Variety's showfolk readers last week was that war had completely stalled Europe's $3,000,000-a-year commercial broadcasting business, conducted mainly from Luxembourg and Normandy for British audiences, who get no commercials from their BBC. Big day for Radio Luxembourg, Radio Normandie and other "outlaw" stations has been Sunday, when the prim BBC goes completely Sabbath. On Sundays, the "outlaws" used to pour forth musical and variety programs acted and recorded in London and air-expressed to the foreign transmitters, briskly dinning Britishers with radio commodities like Alka-Seltzer, Lux, Pepsodent, Kraft Cheese...
...Received from Senator La Follette a bill to outlaw spies, strikebreakers, guns and gas in industrial disputes. Fruit of two and one-half years of investigating, $100,000 expense, this bill was called by its author, with unconscious humor "several decades overdue...