Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning modestly with a simple dance number from The Big Broadcast, the Orchestra got warmer on Berry's syncopated satire of William Tell, warmer still when Jack Teagarden rose and blared trickily on his trombone. Critic-Composer Deems Taylor, hired as oral annotator of the program, proposed that the jazz concert be considered "a vacation from culture," warned: "You have heard scandalous things but worse are coming...
First was a proposal for a retailing "NRA" founded on state instead of Federal statutes. At the next Dry Goods convention in January the general membership will be asked to approve a program calling for support in state legislatures of model laws covering wages, hours, child labor, deceptive advertising, misleading labeling and price cutting. All this looked like a smart attempt to head off Federal legislation in the next Congress. Ground for this suspicion was broadened last week when the Dry Goods Association belatedly announced that it had quit the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...
Chapter 1. RKO was formed in October 1928 as a holding company for Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corp., F. B. O. (Film Booking Office) Productions, Inc. and a half-dozen other subsidiaries engaged in vaudeville and cinema businesses. RKO then embarked upon an expansion program, acquiring theatre properties at top prices at a time when the public's desire for vaudeville was diving downward. To speed its entrance into the "talkies," RKO issued Class B stock (500,000 shares), gave it to Radio Corp. of America in exchange for rights to RCA Photophone sound-picture equipment and special considerations from...
...stock. For $4,700,000 in cash and notes, RKO early in 1931 bought the production and distribution facilities of Pathe Exchange, Inc., whose head had been Joseph Patrick Kennedy, later Securities & Exchange Commission chairman. The deal gave RKO a newsreel, enabled it to plunge further into a cinemaking program which proved costly as the depression deepened...
...inclusion of Cornell in next year's schedule and particularly the "shooting expedition" of the seven directors of the Athletic Associations concerned are happy augeries for the future. The hunters should return with the only conceivable alternative to President Conant's program for endowing athletics in their game bag--a well formulated plan to revive the languishing spirit of amateurism...