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Last month the Republican Committee went to the two great broadcasting chains, Columbia and National, asked to buy time on the air to present its skits. Last week the correspondence showing how the Com mittee met refusal in both quarters served as advance publicity to gain more attention for the Republican drama than if it had been broadcast from coast to coast. Excerpts from the correspondence...
...Paul FitzSimons, Republican National Committeewoman from Rhode Island, in a letter to the New York Herald Tribune told how she and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, speaking from Portsmouth, N. H. last September, had their broadcast spoiled by interference from a brass band whenever they attacked the New Deal. She also told of listening to the Republican broadcast last week over WGN: Reception of WGN in Rhode Island was perfect until five minutes before the political broadcast began. "At that time roars and crashes began which continued incessantly until five minutes after the . . . program ended...
...Georgia Governor Talmadge howled "conspiracy" when the two radio chains declined to broadcast the convention of his anti-New Deal "Constitutional Democrats" scheduled to meet in Macon...
...cost 2,000 diners $50 per plate- $5 for food and $45 for the Party's campaign chest. When he had eaten tomato stuffed with lobster, diamondbacked terrapin soup, breast of capon, hearts of palm salad and other things, the 32nd President of the U. S. arose and broadcast as follows on the 7th President...
...sofa, a cigaret holder were named after the piece. At the St. Paul Hotel in St. Paul, Minn., Bandmaster Bernie Cummins reported he had received more requests for it than for any other number. So did Bandmaster Ozzie Nelson at Manhattan's Lexington Hotel. Both NBC and Columbia broadcasting chains, at death grips with the potent music publishers, announced that the tune, which was unrestricted, was the most popular on the air. Station WHN played it 28 times on one all-night broadcast in answer to 428 appeals. Station WBNX prepared to broadcast the song in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish...