Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They could remember the thoroughness and despatch with which Mr. Morrow, at President Coolidge's request, investigated the Air Service rumpus kicked up by Col. William A. Mitchell, U. S. A., in 1925; how, as chairman of the President's Aircraft Board, Mr. Morrow mapped out the Government air program now going forward...
...ranks held by apparently superfluous officers were provided, it was recalled, in President Wilson's naval program of 1916, the building end of which was discarded after the limitation of armaments at the Washington Conference in 1922. The personnel end has not yet been proportionately diminished...
...McNamee sang soprano. Now 34, he has long since lost his high notes but still sings in concert as a baritone, always including in his program "The Fields O' Ballydare," simple Irish ballad. But he has little time for concerts. Things happen fast in the U. S., and, wherever in the U. S. anything nationally important is happening, Graham McNamee sits there telling the world...
From the relatively simple process of announcing bedroom story-tellers and weather reports on the regular studio program, Announcer McNamee has assumed a position of national prominence. Inevitably, he has had much criticism. Sports experts grumble that he does not know the sport he is describing. Radio executives answer that neither do most of the listeners; that colorful, general reports are more satisfying to the masses than accurate technical descriptions. Sports experts, particularly fight listeners, agree that with seeing many fights and football games his knowledge is increasing...
...Harvard Night" is to be observed this evening at Loew's State when the Back Bay theatre is to put on a program of general Harvard interest. The main feature of the program is to be Buster Keaton in "College", a typical burlesque of the collegiate picture. A comedy entitled "Harvard vs. Yale", and Creator and his band make up the rest of the program...