Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rhode Island men were carried off to the police station−arrested as suspicious characters. They telephoned back to the Governor of Rhode Island. He remonstrated with the Massachusetts law to release his Officers. Massachusetts declined. At 1 a. m. the seven hapless Rhode Islanders were locked in separate cells. Nor did they get out till some time later, when a local Attorney furnished bail...
...winded political speeches. I have no hesitancy in saying that the ordinary political speech, as we have known it for years to be delivered from platforms in political campaigns, will not go at all with radio audiences. They will tune out in the middle of it and get some station that is sending jazz or a symphony concert...
...other important result of Mr. Hammond's trip was the approval which the Italian Government gave to his system of narrowcasting, or secret radio. This system employs short wavelengths, superimposed with high frequency modulations. Unless a receiving station was properly fitted to receive these modulations, or to use his own phrase, "to straighten out the dents in the rays," the message could not be made...
...group of men fidgeted on a platform in Waterloo Station, London. Trains puffed in, carriage doors flew open, a host of grinning Americans and Canadians flocked out. The fidgeters, English reception committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, sprang into action, shook hands, in every direction, loaded the grinners into a fleet of taxis, chugged off with them toward the Strand to the 20th Annual International Advertising Convention...
...Chicago Tribune conducted a referendum among its readers to discover if they wished to have WGN, the Tribune's radio station, broadcast the trial, beginning Aug. 4, of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr., alleged murderers of Robert Franks...