Word: radiomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emerson products. Then big Mutual offered to put him on at its own expense. Father Coughlin again demurred, explained that Elliott Roosevelt would be taken care of by his "spokesman," Father Edward Lodge Curran of Brooklyn's International Catholic Truth Society, on the regular Coughlin network this week.* Radiomen recalling that Father Coughlin had turned down an invitation to talk on NBC's Town Meeting of the Air on "Americanism" last year, concluded that the radio pries disliked controversy, or-more likely-that ostracism from the major network was too precious a jewel to lose from a martyr...
...month on Hold Tight. In Harlem Hold Tight's fishy lyrics are considered no ordinary clambake stuff, but a reasonable duplication of the queer lingo some Harlem bucks use in one form of sex perversion. Harlemites chuckled even more last week when, taking a hint from Broadway columnists, radiomen hastily demanded that Hold Tight's, lyrics be bowdlerized...
...North Carolina coast. Two months ago, Brig. General Fulton Quintus Caius Gardner went to work to sharpen civilian eyes, prick civilian ears in 39 counties and 20,758 square miles around Fort Bragg. In each of 307 eight-mile squares, the cooperating American Legion found farmers, storekeepers, housewives, amateur radiomen, foresters willing to look & listen from 6 to 10 p.m., 4 to 8 a.m. on designated days...
...journalists and radiomen, this looked like complete success for General Gardner's wonderful net. Publicity was in charge of artillery officers who did not go out of their way to discourage this impression, feeling with the Army at large that the Air Corps has got altogether too many bouquets in recent years. Resentful airmen, aware that they were ordered to fly predetermined courses under conditions which would not obtain in war time, boiled out of their ships with profane explanations. Finally bald, patient General Gardner had to caution newsmen: "Nobody is trying to win a war here...
...country of skyscrapers, rattlesnakes and riches, democracy, oil, ice water, le wild West and le jazz hot. With the hope of broadening that conception, and with the blessing of the French foreign ministry which io all for Franco-American good will, two cheerful French radiomen showed up in the U. S. last summer. They were Jacques F. Friedland, 41, president of a French radio production agency, Agence Radiophonique Universelle, and Didier van Ackere, 29, Paris correspondent of Columbia Broadcasting System. They came to make 30 half-hour recordings of U. S. sounds, songs, scenes. These recordings they planned to take...