Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Frank McNinch of the Federal Communications Commission suggested that he might soon start to investigate radio. Last week, as embarrassingly intimate questionnaires on financial matters began to arrive at every radio station in the land, the National Association of Broadcasters picked a man named Mark Foster Ethridge as president. But despite the inevitable newspaper headlines, no Tsar is Mark Ethridge. He is general manager of the Bingham papers in Louisville-the Courier-Journal and the Times-and he will spend more time in Louisville than he will in Washington. He took pains to make it clear last week...
Thus did Washington's station WOL, hooked up for the occasion with Cincinnati's big WLW, last week present some free radio time to Indiana's 73-year-old Representative Finly H. Gray for the first of a series of addresses on money and depression. "Mr. Speaker and fellow members of Congress," hopefully began gaunt, gold-toothed Representative Gray, who had informed his colleagues by letter and in the Congressional Record of his intention to take the air to harangue them at greater length than even his spectral appearance has ever induced them to listen...
...Rightists bomb cities and towns "only when military necessity leaves no alternative." At Salamanca the official Rightist spokesman declared: "Our objective in Barcelona was primarily the terminals of the railroad system, but the casualties in the city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that our bombs exploded the ammunition dump and the crash of the boxes of dynamite, cartridges and so forth turned the neighborhood...
Three thousand benches were lugged into the disused Northwest Railway Station, and soon 25,000 people jammed this impromptu auditorium, bellowing guttural cheers as Orator Göring in ruthless fashion rammed all the most provocative Nazi doctrines home. Austrian Monarchists he first taunted, by referring to the head of the House of Habsburg as "This comic boy, Archduke Otto!" (guffaws) Grimly Göring warned: "If Legitimism†continues, it will be treated as high treason, regardless of whether the charge strikes at an archduke or a worker!" Meanwhile last week, put under Nazi lock & key near Salzburg...
...book is his account of forest fires. In Hinckley, Minn., at noon on Sept. 1, 1894, a forest fire that had been burning nearby swept into town as the wind changed, trapped most of its 1,200 inhabitants. As 475 of them climbed into a train at the station the engineer waited until the paint began to blister on the cars, then pulled out. Ninety waited in a cleared space beside the tracks, were burned to death. Two hundred others raced down the track in another direction, met another train. As they climbed aboard, flames broke out on both sides...