Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where playmates were bringing Christmas gifts to their teachers, 8-year-old Alonso Romero, son of Mexican Ambassador to Venezuela Dr. Miguel Alonso Romero, presented his teacher with a 2½-carat diamond ring. The teacher had Alonso and the ring taken to the Sheepshead Bay police station where Alonso explained he had found it on the sidewalk outside his home. Worth $900, it was identified as one recently reported missing...
Originally conceived in a small independent station as an advice hour in which Novelist Fannie Hurst was to counsel unfortunates, the Good Will Court had become a forum in which selected wretches told their troubles to real judges from the lower courts, who then dealt out free advice. A classic case was that of a young married woman who had met a "boyfriend" and made a "mistake." The resulting baby was disclaimed both by the woman's husband and by her acquaintance. Another woman convulsed Good Will Court listeners by wanting to cancel her husband's interest...
...month a steel elevated train rammed a wooden one on Chicago's North Side, killing11, injuring 67. Some of the victims complained of ambulance chasers. Last week, after a secret investigation, police arrested eight ringleaders, estimated that their gang comprised 1,500 lawyers, doctors, undertakers, hospital attaches, police station loungers, runners, streetcar motormen, professional witnesses...
Early in the autumn of 1934 an advertiser who did not want to pay the full cost of chain broadcasts, but wanted to reach the New York and Chicago market areas, approached officials of WOR, the Bamberger Department Store's station, asked if they could arrange for a program on both WOR and WGN, radio outlet of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune. The advertiser proposed to pay only the station rate of each. This meant that the stations would have to absorb the wire charges for carrying the program between the two cities. They...
With the inauguration of two-station broadcasts, WOR and WGN formed Mutual Broadcasting System on Oct. 1, 1934. They agreed to seek advertisers who wanted to utilize both stations, but not to interfere with each other's local programs. WOR and WGN also began exchanging sustaining (noncommercial) programs. Alfred Justin McCosker, president of WOR, became chairman of M. B. S.; Wilbert E. Macfarlane, vice president and business manager of the Chicago Tribune, became president. Mr. Macfarlane has been interested in WGN since the Tribune opened its station in 1925, has refused to let the chains dominate its policies. First...