Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan Radio Station WMCA by last week had received over 100 excited, fearful, incredulous letters and countless telephone calls asking for more details of this spectral dancer, whose mysterious resurrection they all said had been dramatized grippingly on WMCA's true-story Five Star Final program. To WMCA and Five Star Final, the flood of letters was more a mystery than the spook tale. The station had never broadcast the story...
Author of many books including the recently published "Puritan in Babylon," White will broadcast his Monday lecture and two others which follow on Tuesday and Monday, May 1 internationally by the non-commercial short wave station WIXAR, companion station to WIXAL, of Boston...
...Secretary Hull boarded the President's train as soon as it halted in Washington's Union Station, motored with his chief to the White House. There Franklin Roosevelt's first act was to go out to the south portico with his wife, set off their seventh annual Easter Monday egg-roll. To thousands of cheering children, he said: "It is a wonderful day. . . . I wish I could be down there with...
...story-about a chorus girl who lands in Paris on a rainy night with no assets but a low-cut evening dress -is not as fresh as a mountain daisy. But with Claudette Colbert as the chorus girl, Don Ameche as the taxi-driver who meets her at the station, Francis Lederer as the gigolo who falls in love with her and John Barrymore as the millionaire who finances her, it looks as bright and fetching as an artful nosegay. Good sequence: Barrymore and Colbert eyeing each other at a musicale which she has crashed by palming off a pawn...
...Rate Drug and Quick Lunch occupies the banking room of the defunct Shenandoah Trust Co. But once John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, rode triumphantly up Main Street. Joseph Beddal was killed during the strike of 1902 trying to smuggle arms to strikebreakers besieged in the Reading station. In Muff Lawler's saloon on Coal Street, a young detective named McParlan, hired by President Gowen of the Reading, joined the Molly McGuires, later gave testimony that sent ten Mollies to their death. When Gowen committed suicide 13 years later, Shenandoah miners said it was remorse...