Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the U. S. had been through in October the President described: "Following the abandonment of the gold standard in England a wave of great apprehension spread over the country. Hoarding of currency rose to $200,000,000 a week. . . . Country bank failures had risen. . . . The drain of gold abroad was over $200,000,000 a week...
Astonished, pleased and proud were Manhattan Capitalist & Mrs. Robert Goelet when they returned from Europe few weeks ago to discover that their son Peter, 20, had erected a short-wave broadcasting station, KWKY, on their estate at Chester, N. Y. Over it Capitalist Goelet broadcast his views on the Depression, Unemployment, conditions abroad; Mrs. Goelet hers on "Why We Should Repeal the Eighteenth Amendment." Station KWKY hummed merrily until the Federal Radio Commission informed Capitalist Goelet that the unlicensed station was illegal, that it must be dismantled...
Tulane has a Green Wave which made Flotsam out of Georgia Tech, 33 to 0, with a consistently sweeping attack lead by left-halfback Don Zimmerman, who made one of Tulane's five touchdowns, one of Tulane's three extra points...
Speaking from the studios of the National Broadcasting Company in New York, the University debaters will clash with the Oxonians in the London studios of the British company. The speeches will be conveyed across the Atlantic in each direction by short wave transmission and then rebroadcast in both countries. Assurances are forth-coming from the N.B.C. officials that, although trans-oceanic radio programs are still in their infancy, only the most severe electrical disturbances can interfere with satisfactory reception...
...Tufts soccer team managed to roll up a score of 5 to 2 over the University seconds yesterday afternoon, by scoring consistently in every period. TUFTS HARVARD SECONDS Chester, g. g., Brieson, Nichols Whittaker, l.f.b. r.f.b., Harrison Mazzola, r.f.b. l.f.b., Pollard, Clark Lgisley, l.h.b. r.h.b., Burke Smith, e.h.b. e.h.b., Wave Fairfield, r.h.b. l.h.b., Clark Sharkey, l.o.f. r.o.f., Draper Real, Saracco, l.i.f. r.i.f., Fragley Fletscher, Ganger, c.f. c.f., Chase Hunk, r.i.f. l.i.f., Whitney, Wolff Verge, r.o.f. l.o.f., Randelan...