Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a certain train out of Chicago paused in Crown Point, Ind. last week, a tall, robust male of 47 who looked like a white-headed Indian chief descended to the station platform. With a moment-of-destiny air he announced to the reporters present: "I want to put my foot on Indiana soil...
...stations writing to headquarters for information, the N. A. B. last week was busy explaining its position that both civil liberty and capitalism are "controversial" topics, and therefore dynamite. Its suggestions: 1) have the A. C. L. U. program read by a local A. C. L. U. member as a speech, not as "news"; 2) be sure to identify Orator Sokolsky's sponsor, to avoid letting his views seem to be those of the station...
...were preparing to show them how glad they were to have them back. Planes and more battleships will meet them at sea to escort them into Southampton. A five-car special will whisk them to London, where their children, Queen Mary and the Cabinet will be waiting at the station. In the is-minute procession to Buckingham Palace the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose will ride in the open landau with their father and mother. There will be no formal decorations, but residents along the way are invited to display "spontaneous" decorations, and M.P.s will gather outside the Houses...
Also, Sir Thomas reportedly took a hand in Covent Garden's financing. A new backer for the opera appeared: the London Philharmonic Concert Society (among the directors: Sir Thomas). The Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor: Sir Thomas) took to the air, on Radio Luxembourg, the continental commercial station* to which Britons listen on Sundays or whenever B. B. C. becomes too deadly. Radio sponsor of the orchestra: Beecham's Pills, Ltd. (coupon clipper: Sir Thomas). So Covent Garden had a seven-week opera season, which last week reached...
...waltzed it. The U. S. Marine Band, in Potomac Park, played it straight: Dee deedle dee dum dum, dum dum, dum dum. . . . Dee deedle dee dum dee dum dee dum. . . . Many another orchestra and soloist twanged and blared it. It was even played in Hawaiian style. A local radio station dramatized the life of its author. All this hullabaloo in Washington, D. C. celebrated a work which first took U. S. ears by storm 50 years ago: John Philip Sousa's The Washington Post March...