Word: reith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ballyhoo. A Scotsman, a onetime engineer who was in charge of Britain's munitions for two years during the War is Sir John Charles Walsham Reith. He was a featured guest at the meeting, for since 1927 he has been director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. He was knighted in 1927 for his able management of this government monopoly which permits no radio advertising and gives British radioauditors not what they want but "what they ought to have."* Sir John arrived at the New School just in time to tell the meeting that the U.S. system of competition among...
...British Broadcasting Company,'' said the B. B. C.'s Director-General, Sir John Reith, recently, "has never attempted to give the public what it wants. It gives the public what it ought to have." What the public "ought to have" on Tuesday, Feb. 4 included: How the Welfare Centres Can Help You, by Dr. Stella Churchill; Leonardo Kemp and his Piccadilly Hotel Orchestra; Modern Poetry, by Victoria Sackville-West; Child Impersonations, by Harry Hemsley; Oxford in the Seventies, by Mrs. Margaret L. Woods; Scientific Research and Clothes, by Professor Leonard Hill...