Word: radioed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . TIME was very nice to me-much too kind (TIME, Oct. 28). In truth, most of the credit for that press rate reduction between the U. S. and Japan should go to General Harbord of the Radio Corporation. General Harbord was the man who first made the startling suggestion of reducing the trans-Pacific press rate to ten cents a word. It was his constant insistence that finally got the Japanese government to the idea of even going him one cent better. Roy W. Howard, Chairman of the Board of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, in Japan as a delegate...
...built in 1825. But today most of the inmates live in new cell blocks on the hill above the Hudson River. The sizeable cells are equipped with modern sanitary apparatus. In each is a desk and chair. At the head of each bed is a, radio headphone. Prison-wise felons would rather go "up the river" to Sing Sing than to other New York penitentiaries. Most famed Sing Sing inmate is Charles E. Chapin, onetime city editor of the New York World, serving 20 years as a wife-killer. He has charge of the prison bird house, cares for Sing...
Last fortnight Attorney General Mitchell detailed over the radio the Administration's plan for permanent prison betterment. It called for $6.500,000 to build five new Federal prisons: a 1,200-inmate penitentiary in the northeastern states, an industrial reformatory in the West for 1.200, three Federal jails to hold 500 short-term convicts each. The plan also projects reorganization of the parole system, development of prison industries, provision for education of prisoners...
...House of Ricordi, Italian music publishers, has always zealously guarded the operas entrusted to it by the late Composer Giacomo Puccini. Feeling that radio was unqualified to do them artistic justice, the Ricordis have kept the Puccini operas off the air. Last week, however, the ban was lifted and beginning Saturday evening. Nov. 16, a series of six condensed versions will go on the U. S. air?to advertise American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.? Madame Butterfly will be first, with Conductor Gennaro Papi, Soprano Frances Alda. Contralto Merle Alcock. Tenors Mario Chamlee and Alfred O'Shea. Baritone Pasquale...
This afternoon from 4.20 to 4.30 o'clock, the University Film Foundation will present a radio program over Station WBZA, in which a short talk about the process of "drypoint" will be given by F. G. Hall '04. He is featured in a film of the same name just completed by the Foundation, and the premier showing of this movie will be announced during the program over the air. This showing, together with an exhibition of "The Eicher's Art", will be given at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Wednesday...