Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress the President sent the report of his Great Plains Committee recommending that a long-range drought program be developed and adopted. From his special Farm Tenancy Committee he received a report recommending a long-range program to rid the country of the evils of farm tenancy. Both programs are of vast scope, indefinite outline...
...lying low, waiting to see how the wind blew. Letters from constituents and memorials from State Legislatures were mostly pro-Court, but there were enough pro-President to give Congressmen pause. Asked why he had suddenly canceled plans to introduce two non-controversial items of the President's program in a separate bill, Chairman Hatton W. Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee spoke the troubled mind of many another Congressman: "The visibility is poor, it's foggy, the barometer is too low and the wind is not in the right direction. So I decided not to take...
...operates. Cowed by this abuse, Director of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal stalwartly defended his organization at the meeting but admitted it needed funds. The airline operators, equally cowed, shunted blame onto radio failure because of such weather conditions as rain static. The conferees got together on an eleven-point program of improvements for radio and the Bureau,* scuttled home. Scarcely had they settled down last week when there came another major crash about which two things were immediately apparent-that neither radio nor the Bureau of Air Commerce was to blame...
...tissue about his tonsils, Baritone Nelson Eddy elatedly squealed, "Doc, you're making a soprano out of me," broke into Ol' Man River. Gargled he, dancing a jig and forgetfully swallowing the throat wash: "It may seem ironical that a featured singer on a throat remedy radio program [Vick's] must have his throat attended to. ... I am reluctant to say that I am going to have four notes more range and . . . twice the volume...
...more complicated. Called for this week was a conference between Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Chairman James McCauley Landis of SEC and Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board to study ways & means of discouraging investment of foreign funds in the U. S. With its gold sterilization program (TIME, Jan. 4), the Treasury is now keeping the incoming metal from inflating the credit base. But the huge volume of investments is itself a threat to U. S. stability, particularly in case of war when the money might be suddenly withdrawn. "The constant inflow of foreign capital...