Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago General John Metaxas. with the help of George II, King of the Hellenes, became Premier and soon after War Minister, Navy Minister Air Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister. Added up, these offices spelled Dictator. Since that time short, fat, German-educated Dictator Metaxas has intermittently seen Red. Late in 1936 he directed one big "Red" purge. Early this year another one was staged. Between these events numerous minor roundups took place...
...will begin hearings on Representative Emanuel Celler's Pan American Broadcasting Station Bill. This measure would: 1) authorize the Navy Department to construct and operate a $700,000 Government broadcasting station (with $50,000 for annual maintenance) with power and equipment adequate not only for short wave broadcasting to South America but for the whole U. S.; 2) instruct the Commissioner of Education to provide programs of national and international interest, running the full educational and entertainment gamut covered by commercial broadcasters...
Representative Celler comes from Brooklyn, and so has a very real and very natural dread of Naziism. Fundamentally he designed his bill to provide the U. S. with means of competing with short-wave propaganda regularly broadcast for the past four or five years from Europe's totalitarian countries. Of the 30-odd bills pending in House & Senate to muscle Government further into radio, the Celler Bill is closest to the hearing stage and is, therefore, hated & feared by private broadcasters. It is their contention that the radio industry already provides ample technical and artistic facilities for South American...
...Blue). Second act by short wave from Florence Music Festival with Gina Cigna and Beniamino Gigli...
...Northeast Quarter" of Berlin, where tenements are tall and rations short, a worn old woman last year passed her 70th birthday in public oblivion. Ten years before, as one of the most powerful living woman artists, she had been honored with a big retrospective exhibition. Five years before, she had been director of the Graphic Arts department of the Berlin Academy. But the canons of Nazi art were such that, though she continued to work, Kathe Kollwitz had no more exhibitions in Germany after...