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James Ramsay MacDonald is never so happy as when burring out sonorous periods on the subject of his great specialty "the Peace of the Wor-r-rld." Last week the silver-haired Scot, fresh from his summer's rustication in Nova Scotia, was busily ensconced at No. 10 Downing St. with experts of the British Admiralty. They had hoped he would take things easy and let the Admiralty dictate to Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon what course the Empire shall steer at the 1935 Naval Conference. Instead the Prime Minister assumed full charge last week, letting it be known...
Last week in Manhattan the old battle seemed about to break into fresh fireworks. Station WOR (Macy's and Bambergers department stores) proposed to fill the air with an hour's news every day. News on the Air, For a time Radio helped itself to the columns of newspapers. When the Press protested such flagrant thieving, an arrangement was made whereby Radio was supplied with reports from Associated Press, United Press and International News Service, to be broadcast with full credit. The front remained reasonably quiet until election night...
Thus one night last week did an announcer at Newark's WOR preface a radio act put on by the Mount Rose Gin Distilling Co. of Trenton, N. J. Immediately thereafter a male trio called "The Sizzlers" burst into "Sweet Adeline." Mount Rose Gin was mentioned more than once...
Even though it had censored "The Sizzlers" and their gin program, WOR was taking a grave chance of losing its broadcasting license. The prudish Federal Radio Commission, which always points out that it has no powers of censorship but which nevertheless can brush an offending station off the air overnight, had just laid down the doctrine that alcohol advertisements must be kept off the air. All broadcasters were thus warned...
...LaGuardia, New York's candidate for No. 3 political job in the U. S., unwise enough to believe he could compete with the "March of TIME" at 8:30 tonight! Though politically minded, I shall tune in on WABC rather than WOR...