Word: wcau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commentator Carter talked himself into trouble with C. I. O. unions. Pickets marched in front of Station WCAU (Philadelphia) where he did his broadcasting, and it was persistently rumored that his five-year-long association with his sponsor, the Philco Radio & Television Corp., would not outlast the contract then in effect. At the beginning of 1938 Newscaster Carter and Philco parted company. Promptly he was signed by General Foods to broadcast for Huskies and Post Toasties. Thereupon Philadelphia's C. I. O. Council passed a boycott resolution against General Foods products...
...Hauptmann case, flayed that official in his broadcasts with a startling lack of restraint. Last week Commentator Carter had his first serious editorial kickback when Governor Hoffman filed in New Jersey Supreme Court a $100,000 libel suit against Carter, Philco Radio & Television Corp.; Philadelphia's Station WCAU, where the Carter broadcasts originate; Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. Inc., Atlantic Broadcasting Corp. and Columbia Broadcasting System...
Harold ("Boake"') Carter was an obscure news commentator for Philadelphia's Station WCAU when he went to Hopewell, N. J. in March 1932 to broadcast descriptions of the frantic search for the Lindbergh baby's kidnapper. Four years later, with the kidnapper awaiting death at Trenton (see p. 20), Broadcaster Boake Carter and his brash news comments had grown to be something of a national institution...