Word: tele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a war with Japan breaks. The odds are in favor of the U. S., the authors conclude, "provided that there are not too many Americans to ask 'Why?' and remain dissatisfied with the answer they receive." FIFTY-FIVE MEN-Fred Rodell-Tele-graph Press ($2.50). A sharply realistic account, based on James Madison's notes, of the framing of the U. S. Constitution, demonstrating that the framers had hard-headed motives never portrayed in grade-school history texts; and that the Federalist papers were slick propaganda. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA, 1883-1935 -Irving Kolodin-Oxford...
Farnsworth Abroad. Year and a half ago Britain's Parliament, deigning to give ear to the television buzz, appointed a committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television...
...Lyda Roberti, Burns & Allen, Sir Guy Standing, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears, Wendy Barrie, Bing Crosby, the Vienna Choir Boys and Bill Robinson could scarcely be distinguished for its spontaneity. The device which shackles them together in The Big Broadcast is a "tele-radio" set in which Oakie and Wadsworth, as two radio performers marooned in the castle of a crazy countess (Lyda Roberti), are able to see a series of broadcasts in which the other members of the cast do their turns. As self-conscious as it sounds, it is an artifice...
...late has grown steadily more radical, playing for the support of Cuba's restive unemployed. Last week he wanted to seize the Cuban Telephone Co., in which U. S. citizens own the greater part of an investment stake of $28,000,000, planted through International Telephone & Tele- graph which owns stock control. Nervous ministers warned President Mendieta that such confiscation would be rash indeed, but he relied on President Roosevelt's "good neighbor" policy and distaste for public utility companies...
...Woodrow Wilson was a gallant lover, an ardent wooer. His anxiety to make a good impression was delightful. He seemed no more certain of success than any other man might and he exhausted all the tricks of this old trade. . . . The President had a private tele phone wire run from his bedroom to Mrs. Gait's house. He wrote her long letters. . . . The Library of the White House not supplying him with sufficient quotations, he called on the Library of Congress for poetic phrases. Flowers were ordered for her daily . . . purple orchids. These carried a special message . . . and when...