Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complex combination of all three, the Act empowers Secretary Wallace: 1) to set a national acreage allotment for each crop each season based on production during preceding years; 2) to give farmers who cooperate with the acreage allotment program loans on their crops whenever prices fall too far below "parity"-the purchasing power relative to other commodities which wheat, corn, rice and cotton enjoyed between 1909-14 and tobacco between 1919-29 (unless Secretary Wallace thinks other base periods would be more just); and 3) to invoke compulsory marketing quotas, subject to rejection by one third of the growers involved...
Although the weather was anything but perfect, Dartmouth was rewarded by winning every event on the program for a perfect score of 500-the first time in Carnival history...
Sizing up the situation. Film Daily's Chester B. Bahn put his finger on the real danger of Chicago's proposed action, hinted that the industry ought to purge itself lest "a municipality . . . tomorrow . . . may similarly attack the alternative feature & shorts program, and the day after by legislation decree the length of a feature itself." Motion Picture Herald's Martin Quigley, Johnny-one-note of the trade press, was plaintively sarcastic: "This industry is going to be fixed up fine," wrote he, "when all the experts get through -making it safe for babies, supplying adult education...
Most interested listeners when J. Emory Duskin, onetime head of Alabama's real estate association, broadcast from Manhattan on Sanka Coffee Co.'s We, the People program were 1,300 convicts gathered around the radio in the model dairy of Montgomery, Ala.'s Kilby prison. Reason: Mr. Duskin, their colleague, under a 36 to 60-year sentence for borrowing 850,000 from his former clients, but on parole since last July, had been granted permission by Governor Bibb Graves to fly to Manhattan unguarded for the broadcast. The keynote of his speech: "The most important thing...
...Chairman of the new board to draw up a program for the Republican Party is (1 Glenn Frank, 2 Alfred M. Landon, 3 Herbert Hoover, 4 George D. Aiken, 5 John D. M. Hamilton...