Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the Post Intelligencer did not say was what everyone took for granted- that the President would make the trip the occasion for a few major speeches en route, a personal investigation of the Northwest's reaction to the last few months of the New Deal. Closest thing to official confirmation of the Seattle Post Intelligencer'?, scoop that could be gotten last week was an admission that the trip was under consideration. But last week the President had no eastern appointments on his calendar after September 17, when he is scheduled for an outdoor Constitution Day speech...
...first time in three years the Varsity football team will start the season without two strikes already upon it and the third, a high hard one coming while the batter is still off balance. That may be mixing sports and figures of speech but it's literally true, and this is the season when sports are being mixed anyway...
...drama, ahead is just where CBS got last April when its skilful experimental Workshop of the Air produced Poet Archibald MacLeish's The Fall of the City. It was the most competent U. S. verse play written for the radio and, setting aside the beauty of its speech and the power of its story, The Fall of the City, as produced by oldtime Radio Engineer Irving Reis, added some new dimensions to the technique of radio drama...
...which makes it unlawful to exhibit for pecuniary gain criminal or deformed persons. Federal Judge J. Leroy Adair pondered, decided "exhibiting" meant displaying the person as on a vaudeville stage, refused the injunction. Benton & Bowles's Manhattan publicity department shot out an exultant news release claiming "freedom of speech in commercial broadcasting was upheld for the first time in radio history." Promptly Murderer Durkin's biography was announced for the "Gangbusters" show this week...
...apron did force the attackers higher, thus impairing their marksmanship. This year, therefore, in its frenzy of rearmament, Great Britain is again preparing a balloon apron to be used for its psychological effect. How impressive this apron will be was last week indicated more dramatically than by any speech in Parliament. During tests at Cardington, a 50,000-cu. ft. balloon broke away, and before snagging in a tree in Sudbury, drifted 60 miles trailing no less than 40,000 ft. of wire. The Air Ministry was much relieved to find that no damage had been done by this...