Word: radioed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus spoke, last week, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon over the radio from Washington. Conjured up by his hopeful words the heart of many a wage-earner and professional man leaped with...
Since the three British parties (Conservative, Liberal and Laborite) have all booked their halls and arranged their radio broadcasts on the basis of May 30 as Election Day, the indomitable Scotch divines could not well have devised a more cunning means of embarrassing God-fearing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), who set the election date, yet can ill afford to lose the vote of a Single Scottish Conservative...
...Justice of England, then Viceroy of India, and finally Marquess of Reading is famed Rufus Daniel Isaacs. Last week he in- troduced David Lloyd George, fiery leader of the Liberal Party, to a campaign audience of 10,000 which jammed famed Albert Hall. A system of land wires (not radio) would carry the bandy little Welsh-man's speech to 14 other voter rallies throughout England, Scotland and Wales. In stage boxes on opposite sides of the proscenium sat, dramatically, the great lords of the British press, Viscount Roth- ermere and Baron Beaverbrook...
...Indianapolis, one Aaron Everett, 69, grump, quit his son's home because of the incessant radio. Searchers found him nestled in a hollow tree, grumbling over and over "A fellow can't sleep at all," and munching gingersnaps...
...President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill known officially as H. R. No. 632, known unofficially as the White Act. Of its many sections, the 17th was destined to cause the most trouble. For it provided that U. S. radio companies and U. S. cable (telegraph, telephone) companies should never unite, if their union might "substantially lessen competition ... or restrain commerce . . . or unlawfully create a monopoly...