Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stairs to the den and turn on the radio. I check the paper to find out the correct station. I am burned up to discover that you or the Blue Network or some other fiend has again changed the time to 8:30, and I have missed the program...
...prices is one reason for the stockmarket being so jittery." Both the talk of corn and the talk of jitters were advance publicity for the belated refitting of the New Deal's battered agricultural ship. For when Congress convenes in special session next month a new, permanent farm program will be the first legislation considered...
...threat of a 16,000,000-bale cotton crop, which knocked the price from 15? to 8? per lb., the New Deal broke out a well-worn storm sail in the form of loans to cotton growers (TIME, Aug. 23). Hastily arranged just before Congress adjourned, the cotton-loan program was financed by Jesse Jones's RFC through the Commodity Credit Corp...
Just what the new permanent farm program was to be was not known even in Henry Wallace's big, liberal heart. But through the fog of conflicting plans loomed the probability that the New Deal would ask Congress for the return of the substance of AAA, modified to include 1) Mr. Wallace's "ever normal granary" scheme of storing surpluses for lean years, 2) the better features of the soil conservation program, 3) some form of AAA's prime prop-crop control. However, supporting processing taxes would be enacted as a general tax measure, not incorporated...
This speech won Alf Landon little credit for originality or perspicacity. First reply to it-like the first reply to Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chat the week before -came from Columnist Hugh Johnson on his conveniently-timed Bromo Quinine program. Not satisfied with disparaging Alf Landon's argument, he mocked Alf Landon's pronunciation by repeating a Landon slip: "attackted." In Manhattan next day, Herbert Hoover said tersely "It was a good speech" but failed to send Alf Landon congratulations...