Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours after the "persuasion" of Mayor Walker, upon the scene arrived Manhattan's short, swart, bustling Congressman Fiorella H. LaGuardia, to start his campaign for the Republican nomination to run against Mayor Walker. Said he: "The situation is by no means hopeless. . . . The big task is to find candidates with fighting hearts...
...Cafmp Ritchie, Md. Preparations for the parade were interrupted by word that Japanese Ambassador Katsuji Debuchi would attend. Formality demanded singing of the Japanese National Anthem. Distracted officers consulted frantic musicians. Relief came with news that Ambassador Debuchi could not attend after all. Relief was short. On parade, with Governor Ritchie present, 21 paraders were taken ill. Suspected: the liver at lunch...
Last year, Federal Radio Commission, arbiter in all wireless controversies, thought it had solved a problem. Confronted by many a press demand for the few remaining short-wave-length radio channels not in use, the Commission allocated 20 transcontinental channels for the sole use of newspapers and press associations to transmit news. Under the American Publishers Committee, a number of public utility corporations were to be formed to handle wireless press matter. But the problem was not solved, the Commission soon discovered. Loud were the cries of newspapers and news services charging unequal allotment, curtailment of their radio press facilities...
...Author. "1878, I was born in Budapest; 1896, I became a law student at Geneva; 1896 I became a journalist in Budapest; 1897 I wrote a short story; 1900 I wrote a novel; 1902 I became a playwright at home; 1908, I became a playwright abroad; 1914 I became a war correspondent; 1916 I became a playwright once more; 1918 my hair turned snow-white; 1925 I should like to be a law student at Geneva once more...
...many-branched Radio Corp. of America. In Photophone it has its own talking mechanism. In RKO Productions, Inc., it has its own production and distribution company. In General Electric and Westinghouse Electric it has tremendous laboratory resources. During 1929-30 there will be made 30 full-length and 52 short Radio pictures, all of which will talk, many of which will also sing. In these pictures will appear Richard Dix, Rudy Vallee, Rod La Rocque, Owen Moore, Bebe Daniels, Betty Compson. Writers will include Ben Hecht, Charles McArthur, Eugene Walter, Viña Delmar. Thus among great film companies must...