Word: radioed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 4, shortly after noon, Helen Terwilliger, 13, sat comfortably in her eighth grade U. S. history class in the Walden, N. Y., public school. She was primed for what she was about to hear over the radio. She had memorized the Presidential oath, as prescribed by the Constitution, and was positive it ended with the words: "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...Justice replied with a letter equally polite. He admitted his departure from the text, but did not think it invalidated the oath. "When I was sworn in as President by Chief Justice Fuller, he made a similar slip," Mr. Taft recalled, "but in those days when there was no radio, it was observed only in the Senate chamber where I took the oath. . . . You are mistaken in your report of what I did say. What I said was 'preserve, maintain and protect. . . . You may attribute the variation to the defect of an old man's memory...
...Frelsers Kirke. Norwegian radio men had hooked up in Oslo quite as many microphones as were used in Washington when Herbert Clark Hoover said, "I do" (TIME, March 11). Several announcers were posted in and about the Slot, more along broad Karl Johans Gade, and a whole battery in Vor Frelsers Kirke, the hoary Church of Our Saviour, where booming Lutheran Bishop Lunde would ask, "Saa til sparger jeg dig, Olaf, for Gud's assym og. I denne Kristne forsamlings nerverelse. vil du have Martha som hos dig staar til din egtehustrn...
...what he knows about the company but because of what he knows about being a president. He is in the business of running things, and what he runs is a subordinate factor in the situation. Thus last December (TIME, Dec. 10) Hiram Staunton Brown was made president of Radio-Keith-Orpheum with .10 previous experience in the amusement business, and resigned from presidency of U. S. Leathe which he had assumed at a time when he knew little about leather...
...Radio Corp. of America reported a 1928 gross income from all sources of almost exactly $100,000,000. Net earnings after dividends on preferred were $18,464,603.26, which showed earnings per share...