Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slip past the British blockade. His dramatization of statutory neutrality's paradoxes was aimed at bringing Congress to the same view. Such standpatters as Ohio's Taft, Maine's White, Georgia's George and Iowa's Gillette (whose adverse vote defeated the Administration neutrality program last July) switched their stand on the export of arms to belligerents. From outright embargo a Senate majority shifted to cash & carry: to let belligerents buy U. S. arms, pay before shipment, and carry them off in foreign bottoms...
...zero hour German listeners to U. S. short-wave stations kept writing in, asking for pictures of Benny Goodman, requesting that their names be read over the air. Last week, to protect innocent German necks, NBC's international short-wave division discontinued its weekly German Mail Bag program, halted the flow of pictures of Benny Goodman to Reich homes...
...drafting industry naturally include the cinema, only hint last week from Washington was a request to advance the release date on two patriotic pictures: M. G. M.'s Thunder Afloat (about the Navy) and 20th Century-Fox's 20,000 Men (about the college pilot training program begun by the Civil Aeronautics Authority this year...
...part of the Government's neutrality program, Secretary of State Cordell Hull ordered Europe-bound U. S. citizens to submit their passports for validation, announced that only those traveling on "imperative business" would be approved. Passports of returning passengers were confiscated on their arrival...
Died. Lawrence Gilman, 61, famed music pundit of the New York Herald Tribune, author, commentator, program annotator for the Philharmonic Society of New York; of a heart attack, in Sugar Hill...