Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gannett (debating with Ickes on the Town Meeting of the Air program): "My answer is emphatically yes. . . . With what courage and valor editors have fought! Their plants have been bombed and burned; they have been punished and shot. ... In Europe men who criticized the government had . . . their tongues slit, ears cut off. . . . There has been no suppression of Mr. Ickes...
...hold out as long as a sponsor can). But American Federation of Radio Artists (A. F. of L. affiliated) insists that this is not reason enough for half-pay. Last week A. F. R. A., having failed for a year to negotiate minimums of $15 a 15-minute program, $6 for the first rehearsal hour and $3 for each half-hour thereafter, put the case before its entire membership...
...President," said the Christian Century, "there apparently seemed left only one appeal with sufficient emotional content, sufficient power to paralyze men's rational processes, to carry his program for limitless armament spending through Congress.*. . . Every Christian voice should immediately and in unmistakable terms let Congress and the President know that this attempt to drag religion through the hell of a new holy war is resented and repudiated by the churches. . . . This [is] revelation of his utter lack of comprehension of the mind of at least the Protestant churches...
...most Congressmen, the President's half-billion-dollar arms program was less steep than they had expected...
Spiegel, Inc., Chicago mail-order house, started a guaranteed annual wage program for 3,500 employes. Men were assured pay for 40 hours a week, women for 36. If they work less, they will make it up in rush periods...