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Wallace. To Des Moines last week also went Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. To the cornhusking bee in Nebraska he broadcast a description of the first U. S. bee, which he sponsored in 1923 to make cornhusking an art instead of drudgery. Des Moines is Secretary Wallace's home town. Before becoming a Cabinet official he edited Wallace's Farmer there, Iowans turned out 10,000 strong to hear their native son speak in the Coliseum. He declared that the Government's corn-hog loan program would increase farm income, that farm prices would be inflated...
Newspapers did not complain when the radio companies got their microphones at the ringside of important prizefights. Newspapers did not complain when football games went on the air, and political speeches, conventions, presidential addresses. But newspapers did complain when Radio began broadcasting news taken hot from news tickers or newspaper headlines. Newspapers viewed with alarm the formation of news-gathering staffs by the broadcasting companies, especially Columbia, which formed an ambitious subsidiary called Columbia News Service Inc. (TIME, Sept. 25). And last week the brewing quarrel between the Press and Radio flared up hotly when Columbia News Service made...
...reviewing its plans for the future, the Council revealed that next year trips are to be taken to Canada, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and through central New York to Buffalo. A regular debate with the University of Chicago is also planned, as well as debates broadcast over local stations, while the annual triangular debate with Yale and Princeton, the high point of the year, is to be held in the early spring. The Council agreed that inter-House debating should be fostered, and this plan is to be executed soon...
...fired two shots at the Chancellor. Doughty little Dollfuss staggered, then calmly walked to his automobile. Surgeons found one bullet in his shirt where it had bounced off a rib. The other had only scratched his arm. Safe and sound at home, the Chancellor prepared to make a radio broadcast that night. Meanwhile his assailant, an ex-soldier named Rudolph Dertil who had been ousted from the Army as a Nazi agitator, explained: "I wanted to show that Dollfuss is unable to take care of himself, much less the State...
...Chicago went Senator Marconi, to visit the Fair, mingle with Italian societies, eat with the American Legion, broadcast over the Atlantic to his listening King Victor Emmanuel receive an honorary Sc.D. from President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University, accept a 28-in. bronze statuet of an exultant young man from the grateful Radio Manufacturers Association...