Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Argentina, world's greatest cattle exporter, had given way at last on its beef. The U. S. still will not import fresh, chilled or frozen meat from the pampas, in deference to the ire of U. S. cattlemen, already roused by Franklin Roosevelt's crack that Argentine corned beef at 9? a pound is superior food for U. S. sailors to the home product at 24? a pound...
...stanch individual in the Popular Front was Columnist Heywood Broun, whose American Newspaper Guild was well up front. Last week Heywood Broun recorded his anguish: ". . . The Soviet has here and now contributed to the might and menace of Hitler. . . . Fascism is still deadly, but the popular front now becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible. . . . The masquerade is over. The dominoes are dropped and it now becomes possible to look at the faces of the various ones who pretend to be devoted to the maintenance of democracy...
...after two years even Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, beloved as "Copey" to generations of Harvard men and a fixture in Hollis Hall, had to admit that the Freshmen were as gentlemanly as their predecessors. Other observers noted that all the buildings were still standing...
...telling them to be sure to listen in. At Young & Rubicam's request, he bustled up to Manhattan two days before the scheduled broadcast, to show his stuff. In the agency's Madison Avenue skyscraper office, before a delegation of NBC officials, Mr. Klein, who at 37 still looks like Robert Taylor, fixed his fascinating eyes on a girl stenographer. -'You are going to sleep," said he, levelly, (ito sleep, to sleep. . . ." Sure enough, off she went. Mr. Klein turned to another girl-"sleep, sleep, s-l-e-e-p"-and off she went too. Then, magically...
...opportunity to prove its commercial soundness. It merely meant that the X, for experimental, in short-wave call letters was becoming a thing of the past as fast as FCC got around to approving new call letters. By last week FCC had got around to approving 13 new names, still had one, Columbia's W2XE, to go. Most venerable of the call letters already changed were those of Westinghouse's W8XK, the short-wave partner of Pittsburgh's KDKA. As 8XK, 8XS, then W8XK, this station has been broadcasting since 1921, is perhaps most noted...