Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech, carried by Station WAAB and the Colonial network last night, Dr. Reynolds declared that self-regulation of industry "places in the hands of private interests tremendous power, with no guarantee that this power will be used for the public good." He stated that "where competition exists the chances of planful exploitation of the public are reduced and the likelihood of technical progress is increased," but said that "competition has already practically disappeared in many industries, and that in other industries it has proven conspicuously wasteful." Placing public regulation as the only alternative to competition, Dr. Reynolds said that...
...Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that Bandsman Fred Waring and other musicians who make phonograph records have the sole right to determine where and for how much money their discs may be broadcast, in Manhattan a formula drawn up by representatives of some 250 U. S. broadcasting stations promised both more money and more work for musicians who play directly over the radio. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians had threatened a music strike if broadcasters did not hire enough new musicians to bring total expenditures for radio music from...
...some respects superior to them in their hair-raising immediacy. The Movietone, Universal and Paramount photographers who made them arrived at Nanking day before the promised raid, decided to stop at the Yangtze Hotel outside, the city wall because its roof commanded a good view of the railroad station, which they expected to be the prime object of the attack. Imagine their discomfiture next day when the Japanese planes droned out of the sky and headed not for the railroad station but for the power station, 300 yd. away from the Yangtze Hotel...
...cheerfully photogenic subject, M. 0. T. dramatized the high spots of his energetic three-and-a-half years in office, made particular point of his political independence. The cameras caught him running great power shovels to start excavations for public works, watched him hold court in a police station, excoriating racketeers, slot-machine purveyors. Only unguarded moment: a rump-wise view of His Honor clambering over the gunwhale of a boat on one of his inspection tours; only peaceful moment: Husband LaGuardia flopping into an armchair at home after a hard day's work, patting his wife...
...newspapers, hotel menus indiscriminately, in the effort to keep not only his subject but his background alive in the reader's mind. The method adds sparkle but leads to trivia (example: Moore's "duel" with the Reviewer Jeffrey which, interrupted by the police, ended in Bow Street station, and gave rise to malicious rumors that the pistols hadn't been loaded anyway...