Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserted his post on the Canary Islands, hastened to Melilla, took charge of some 20,000 rebellious Legionnaires, regulars and Moorish native troops. Within a day the rebels controlled all Spanish Morocco, a 200-mile strip of coast across from Gibraltar. When they began broadcasting from the Ceuta radio station, pretending to be the Seville station, announcing the surrender of Madrid to the rebels, sympathetic Army garrisons throughout European Spain joined the revolt. They were defeated in Barcelona and Seville but seized the southern ports of Cádiz and Málaga for a landing by the Moroccan rebels...
LABOR ARTICLE JULY 6 ISSUE INACCURATE REGARDING RADIO STATION IN GRANT BUILDING. KDKA IS IN GRANT BUILDING BUT IS WESTINGHOUSE-OWNED AND NBC-OPERATED...
...Hauptmann case, flayed that official in his broadcasts with a startling lack of restraint. Last week Commentator Carter had his first serious editorial kickback when Governor Hoffman filed in New Jersey Supreme Court a $100,000 libel suit against Carter, Philco Radio & Television Corp.; Philadelphia's Station WCAU, where the Carter broadcasts originate; Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. Inc., Atlantic Broadcasting Corp. and Columbia Broadcasting System...
...little town called Glenwood, which is 26 miles west of Sauk Center, birthplace of Sinclair Lewis. Glenwood is also near Cottonwood, birthplace of the first U. S. oil & gas cooperative. Because Cottonwood could not accommodate a convention which observed the 15th anniversary of the founding of its filling station, because Minnesota is the most co-operative State in the Union and because International Co-Operative Day falls on the first Saturday in July, Glenwood played host last week to nearly all the leading cooperators...
...operation is a Cause as well as a system of economics, the delegates did not go in for the usual convention revelry of profit-making businessmen. They swam with their ladies in Lake Minnewaska. They celebrated at Glenwood Park. They inspected the only co-operative in Glenwood, a filling station. They stayed away from the slot-machines in the hotel bar, one cooperator crisply observing: "Slot-machines are distinctly not co-operative." They were there to talk the theory & practice of cooperation, and that is what they did, day & night...