Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first of a series of broadcasts sponsored by the University over radio station W1XAL and dealing with the various aspects of modern college life, Assistant Dean E. Francis Bowditch '35 said in his speech last Tuesday night, "The colleges must study our Twentieth Century civilization and find ways of teaching mankind how to live in the comparatively new world he has created...
Recently a weary crew of French soldiers, repatriated from Spain, paraded from a Paris railroad station to the Bastille. At their head was a stocky, popeyed member of the Chamber of Deputies, André Marty, who had been away in Spain most of the last two years fighting with Leftist International Brigades...
...average of more than 6,000 people write to the Voice of Experience each day, ask for help and advice. They write to the station on which they hear him or to a Manhattan Post Office box address. The location of his home and his office he keeps secret. His passion for anonymity goes so deep that he claims that even members of his family heard the Voice on the air for years before they knew his identity. His business acquaintances call him the Voice. That is the way he signs most of the letters he writes, and his briefcase...
...Captain Anthony Eden of England. Continuing his "looking and learning" visit to the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 19), he went to Washington as an ordinary member of Parliament, but popular excitement could not have been greater had he still been Foreign Secretary. The press mobbed him at Union Station. Women workers at the State Department and White House left their desks and cubbyholes to gather in adulating clusters around...
...melancholy leave of General Louis Eugène Faucher, for 20 years head of France's military mission in the former Czechoslovakia. During the recent crisis General Faucher resigned his commission in the French Army, offered his services to President Benes. Reviewing a guard of honor at the station in Prague, the General wept as he kissed the flag of the country whose army he had so largely created himself. As his train pulled out, a military band played the stately music of the Sambre et Meuse March, while Czech and Slovak officers, tears in their eyes, stood...