Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trouble with this program was that it, combined with Nominee Landon's deficiency in oratorical fire, had failed to catch on, to kindle the nation's enthusiasm. After the strong beginning supplied by his pre-convention buildup, his bold convention telegram and his overwhelming nomination. Nominee Landon's first campaign tour had been accompanied by a Republican slump. Meanwhile John Hamilton and Frank Knox, both abler orators than the nominee, had been drumming into the country's head the idea that Republicans planned to throw out the New Deal bag & baggage, the baby with the bath...
Just as he lands his job on a big-time program, Kit's family sees through his insults, she through his songs. Unhappily obstinate, she heads for Arizona and marriage to the bounder. How Pete, in the middle of his first broadcast before a swank crowd, succeeds in stopping her is too ridiculous to be funny: While his partner holds the radio station at bay by pretending to have a gun, Crooner Pete breaks off singing, babbles impassioned pleas to Kit over...
...superfine young womanhood were shipped into Atlantic City last week for the 10th Annual Beauty Pageant of the Showmen's Variety Jubilee. No sooner had the 48 girls arrived than Mayor Charles D. White whisked them off to the Steel Pier, launched them on a five-day program designed to promote Atlantic City, produce Miss America...
...Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and I join in protest to the American Chemical Society against the use of its agency in aiding the premature and unethical exploitation of this proprietary. . . . May we suggest that proper officials remove [Dr. Seydel's speech] from program because of unwarranted and harmful publicity...
...Rural Electrification) and K. Sewall Wingfield (PWA) criticized private utility management. William Wooden (Federal Trade Commission) declared that the gas industry was in a state of "chaos and anarchy.'' Arthur Ernest Morgan (TVA) insisted that the Constitution must not stand in the way of a sound utility program. Basil Manly and Frank R. McNinch (Federal Power Commission) preached various aspects of the New Deal's power gospel. Robert Healy (SEC) declared that private utilities should concern themselves more with "the production and sale of gas and electricity and less & less with the production and sale of securities...