Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then in Kansas, was gotten through diplomas from a defunct, unrecognized school and a notorious "mill." But the State Attorney General's office was flooded with letters of protest when Dr. Brinkley's license was revoked in 1930. In 1930 the Federal Radio Com- mission refused to renew his license to operate KFKB on the grounds of "obscenity," Dr. Brinkley built a $350,000 station (XER) over the Texas border at Villa Acuna. Mexico. By remote control he is still able to sit in Kansas, "pipe" his voice to Mexico, have it broadcast back again...
...response from graduates is striking. In general, more than a third have eagerly taken advantage of the preferred opportunities. They have discovered in the reading lists and lectures a chance to renew acquaintances with long abandoned intellectual hobbies, and the news of modern educational trends has served to clear up their ordinarily muddled opinions on that subject. From his own point of view, the alumnus has found much profit oven in the limited activities at his command...
...long been slated for government control. The resolution passed at Leicester is essentially an impatient repetition of the old cry: "Socialism in our day." Today it appears that the intellectual socialist element is dissatisfied with its past role of adviser to the stand-pat trade unions, and intends to renew its appeal by turning to the professions and to the bourgeois classes in general...
...Nations is not necessary to Japan. We have no occasion to poke our nose into Europe's affairs. We should concentrate our efforts on the stabilization of Asia. . . . 'Back to Asia' is the watchword of our party. We may be forced to quit the League and China may renew her campaign against us. We must prepare for repetition of the Shanghai affair, and it is impossible to expect improvement in our relations with the United States; they are likely to become worse. . . . Extraordinary measures, in which the army and the politicians cooperate, are needed...
...home, Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Last week Nikolai Sokoloff, summering in Westport, Conn., was looking forward to next winter's 15th orchestra season; but he could not look forward to being Cleveland's maestro after May 31, 1933. The Cleveland Orchestra Company had failed to renew its contract with Founder Sokoloff, previously engaged for five-year periods...