Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Howard Curtis Bennett, Fort Edward, New York--Glens Falls Academy, Glens Falls, New York...
...Youngest member of the young industry is the Mutual Broadcasting System. Network radio had had several unsuccessful efforts to build a fourth national chain to compete with NBC's Red and Blue, CBS, when in 1934 an advertiser who wanted to reach New York and Chicago listeners, but did not want to pay the cost of network broadcasting, approached stations WOR (Newark) and WGN (Chicago) to make a deal. The sponsor wanted to put on a show to be aired over the two stations. The show originated in Newark and he proposed to pay each station its standard time...
...until he now controls some 1,600 air hours a day. He sells a goodly slice of these 1,600 hours, but has by no means all for sale. Deductions must be made for: 1) Time differences across the continent. 2) Time given to sustaining programs like the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Sunday afternoon concerts. 3) Time which member stations have sold locally and withdrawn from network participation...
...travels west (by a politically straight but geographically roundabout route to the American Legion Convention at Los Angeles), New York's watchful little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia carried two watches: one running on New York time, the other on the railroad...
Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, who last month declared that "no American could refuse the nomination" when British Press Tycoon Lord Beaverbrook boomed him for the Presidency (TIME, Aug. 22), announced that he could not & would not accept the Republican nomination for Governor or U. S. Senator from New York...