Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been trying to convince his fellow Republican bigwigs that the best way to keep 17,000,000 Republican voters together in lean times is to supply them with a creed, proposed to the National Committee in Chicago that they call a party conference to formulate a positive program. Fearful of the splits this might disclose, the com mittee voted instead to have its creed drafted by the loo most representative Republicans in the U. S. All that remained was for the Republican executive committee to find 100 such suitable philosophers. So last week in St. Louis the committee, including...
...understand it. This was practically the only complaint not offered by various rebellious members in the House last week, as Chairman Marvin Jones of the Agriculture Committee maneuvered his 86-page Farm Bill toward the first vote taken in either House on a part of the President's program for the special session...
With an eye to variety, Director Edward H. Griffith slipped in several enlivening touches of his own. The best: Low-brow Erwin, rolling dice on his program during the performance of Martha, finds neighbors on both sides of him eager to play, turns up snake eyes to complete his dismal evening...
...Borrow or Steal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frank Morgan, as a "steerer" of European tourists, poses as proprietor of a chateau in order to provide for his visiting daughter, Florence Rice. The dialog is wittier and the characters better rounded than usual in this type of program-filler...
...operating units and headed by 47-year-old Benjamin Franklin Fairless, president-elect of the parent company. Headquarters of the new management corporation, which will determine all operating policy, will be in Pittsburgh, in harmony with "the atmosphere of steel operations." Thus Big Steel continues its announced program of rededicating Pittsburgh as the steel capital of the U. S. In the future only purely financial matters will be the concern of the Manhattan office...