Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Memorial Day $100,000 match race with War Admiral, was withdrawn a half hour before post time because of a swollen tendon, and Dauber, who had been so excited the day he arrived in Hollywood that he jumped out of his van while riding from the rail-road station, bruised a leg and broke a tooth, was also scratched a half hour before post time because of a bowed tendon...
...Heard a remarkable report on experiments that proved intelligence is affected by environment. Psychologist George Dinsmore Stoddard, director of the Child Welfare Station in Iowa City, Iowa, reported that: 1) illegitimate children of feeble-minded mothers and laboring fathers, after being placed in good homes, turned out to be bright children; 2) apparently normal youngsters, kept in an overcrowded orphanage, "deteriorated...
...giving the FCC the job of setting rules for radio's participation in political campaigns. Since the Communications Act became law, four years of election campaigns have passed into history, one Presidential contest. Loud cries of foul! rose from candidates who thought themselves victims of station discrimination. But the FCC left its mandate untouched...
With a fifth campaign coming to decision in November, FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch last week announced that he would lay before his Commission the question of promulgating rules for distributing time to political candidates. A formal petition for campaign regulations recently came from station WTAR (Norfolk, Va.). WTAR was tired of having to take on itself the politically dangerous (as well as costly) responsibility of allotting politicians the use of its station...
...spring of 1912 an English-born stripling named Alfred E. Lyon took a train from Canada to Manhattan to look for a job. Getting off at Grand Central Station with no knowledge of the city, no specific job in mind, he turned right on 42nd Street, presently reached Sixth Avenue. There he saw a handsome store with a large display of Melachrino cigarets in the window. He asked the clerk inside about Melachrino. "Sure," said the clerk, "that's a swell company. It's run by Mac McKitterick and Rube Ellis.'' A. E. Lyon went...