Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used his press conference: 1) to lay the ghost of "secrecy" still haunting him for his aid to the French in their U. S. plane-buying (see p. 14); 2) to allay any lingering doubts Business might have about his policies. When asked about a new business "appeasement" program about to be popped by Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt asked: what businessmen need appeasing? No new taxes are planned, he said. With the removal of private obstacles to TVA,* he said, no further Government excursions into the power industry are planned. Business confidence, he insisted...
Part of an elaborate program instituted to remedy that fault was a school set up by the corporation, but run by and for the unions. Last week 24 students of labor history, economics, business administration, the Wagner Act, other subjects of joint concern to worker & boss graduated from Pabco's school, bade fair to make labor-relations history...
...were the editors of The Arrow, latest of British weekly newssheets, recently started by the diplomatic correspondents of the Manchester Guardian and Yorkshire Post. Latest issue of The Arrow to reach the U. S. says that German air mobilization is now 95% complete, that the rest of the mobilization program is now progressing on this schedule...
When 2,000 sportsmen, scientists and sentimentalists, organized by Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, met in Washington three years ago for the first North American Wildlife Conference, it seemed pure fantasy to hope that they would agree on a common program. For years animal-lovers and hunters had fought each other far more vigorously than they fought for conservation of the nation's wildlife resources. Meanwhile lakes dried up, marshes were drained, forests cut over, rivers polluted, birds, beasts and fish killed off by the million...
...Liszt . . . played by Paderewski!" And then the Master began to let his fingers ripple up and down the keyboard with a technique and tone that captivated the countless thousands of Harvard men tuned in at the moment. But many a listener heard at one time or another during the program a slowly increasing buzz. Was the immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem? Was the piano out o tune? Most emphatically not! It was simply that certain unnamed but fuzzy-bearded individuals were engaged in peeling hair off their respected...