Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem: Does a candidate who takes the customary air time of a popular program draw to himself the attention or the hostility of the program's audience? Candidate Dewey* last week bought on Station WJZ (Manhattan) 30 minutes of Tuesday evening time, half of which usually goes to the Information Please program. Although he was still talking when his time was up, WJZ cut him off to pick up the second half of Information Please, on which Harpo Marx was a noisily silent guest juror,† By telephone Information Please fans berated NBC for giving part of the program...
While Hitler and Mussolini trumpet their sympathy for the native, native dissatisfaction with British rule steams and bubbles from India through Palestine to Africa. In East Africa more sanitation, medicine, education and agricultural improvements might reconcile villagers to their colonial status. Such a program requires trained experts. Since Negro civil servants are cheaper than white, in fact cost only one-fifth as much to hire and maintain, the $1,000,000 Makerere College is expected to be a good investment for England...
...should, labor would undoubtedly go on the nation-wide strike already voted. By putting it squarely up to the Government to do something for the staggering roads, the Fact-Finders gave impetus to Franklin Roosevelt's request that the two opposing groups get together on a sweeping legislative program...
...Franklin Roosevelt found this review "rather horrifying." Wall Street found rather horrifying what SEC did next. After SEC Chairman William O. Douglas and New York Stock Exchange President William McC. Martin Jr. had conferred, SEC issued a further reform program agreed on by the Exchange to prevent any more Whitney scandals. Main points: 1) more frequent questionnaires and auditings of member firms; 2) prohibition of margin transactions and the maintenance of margin accounts by member firms and partners doing business with the public; 3) establishment of a 15-to-1 ratio instead of the present 20-to-1 between...
Browder, speaking last on the program, roused the audience to wild enthusiasm when he bitterly denounced the Munich Pact as "Not peace, but the New World War." Linking Herbert Hoover and Leverett Saltonstall with Hitler, he warned the audience of the danger of Fascist penetration into Latin America and urged all to cooperate with the Communist Party to save Democracy...