Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King George VI (Fri. 8:3O a.m., NBC-Red) unveils Australian War Memorial at Villers Bretonneux, France, exchanges speeches with President Lebrun...
Hans Wilhelm Steinberg (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC-Red). Palestine Symphony Orchestra conductor and Arturo Toscanini's new assistant makes his U.S. debut and closes the first NBC Symphony season...
Pope Pius XI (Sun. 12 a.m., NBC-Red) broadcasts his benediction to Canada's Eucharistic Congress...
...asked, "if all the nations of the world would join together and sing Hallelujah?" These words were practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments as "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air." For several months he hammered away at a peaceful-plowshare version. Last fortnight he published it. The revised text...
...Ford's educational ideas are a curious mixture of the old-fashioned and modern. He calls his schools "the McGuffey type," and they reproduce as much as possible the old little red schoolhouse. No advocate of mass production in education, he likes small schools, small classes, individual instruction. But his schools have no more in common with the McGuffey type of education than the Ford has with a horse. Instead of learning from textbooks, Henry Ford's pupils learn by doing, from trips, planting, harvesting, building. Instead of confining themselves to the three Rs, his schools teach youngsters...