Word: wrul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Messages of cheer and hope for eventual democracy and freedom are daily being broadcast over radio station WRUL to all the European nations by many prominent news commentators and a large group of Harvard professors and instructors...
...broadcasting over WRUL is non-commercial, and the money necessary to run its 50,000 watt transmitter and to do other jobs connected with the station's operation comes entirely from private donations and memberships in the listener's league...
Radio, on the other hand, was adopted in the spring of 1939 and almost immediately became the protege of the Faculty. In 1940, it did a series of programs with the Civilization Councillors over short wave station WRUL. Professor Friedrich gives a section on the radio as a social force, in Government 25. Charles Siepmann, noted authority on radio, gave a series of lectures last fall. Norman Corwin and Phil Cohen, the most brilliant men at CBS, have been guest speakers. The Crimson Network runs a full-fledged station, and the Radio Workshop has been organized specifically for the writing...
Ironically, the programs which inspired Yugoslavs to battle had their origin in the WRUL studios of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, which has been supported by Rockefeller, Sloan and Carnegie cash and listeners' contributions since 1935, on the basis of its original purpose to promote international amity. Among those who have needled the Fuhrer over its facilities have been Dorothy Thompson, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Norway's Carl J. Hambro. But none has packed the wallop of cultured, greying, 46-year-old Dr. Svetislav-Sveta Petrovitch, author of last fortnight's appeals to the Yugoslavs...
Through his great & good friend Hamilton Fish Armstrong, onetime U.S. military attaché in Belgrade, now editor of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Petrovitch got a berth on WRUL, a 50,000-watt powerhouse, last fall. Conditions under which he agreed to operate were simple: a two-month trial at broadcasting three times a week, with no interference from anyone. Within three weeks, the State Department was advised by Arthur Bliss Lane, its Minister in Belgrade, that Dr. Petrovitch was becoming a potent force in Yugoslavia, that he ought to be aired every...