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...Alton's first citizen, offered to telephone the neighbor. His slippers flew off as his captors seized and dragged him to a waiting automobile. Mr. Luer's sons, fearful lest their father's serious heart ailment be fatally aggravated by the shock of his capture, broadcast that Mr. Luer should be allowed to stand up if an attack came on, should be given no coffee, only mild cigars. "We cannot accept any ring, stickpin, or fingerprints," they warned. "You can take such things from a dead man. We must have something in father's handwriting." After...
From Canterbury the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury broadcast exaltation for the "restoration in England of the great conception of the Catholic Church...
...publisher of newspapers in Fort Lauderdale, Deland, and Daytona Beach had thumped loudly for Roosevelt, was now picking his political plum. Last week Governor Gore flew to Puerto Rico to take up his duties and announce a New Deal. As his airplane approached San Juan, he seized a microphone, broadcast a plea to Puerto Ricans for cooperation. Despite a downpour of rain there was a crowd waiting to welcome him, escort him to the ancient fort which is the Governor's mansion. His first public act was to attend mass in the cathedral. To Puerto Ricans this...
Most irked was Delegate Samuel P. ("Waiting Game") McReynolds. To lash the Press he took to the air in a trans-Atlantic broadcast over the Columbia System. Artful, he strove to make out that it was only to the European Press that the U. S. delegation's difficulties seemed ludicrous. Said he: "I want to say that no delegation to an international conference ever met as fierce a barrage of criticism as that which practically all the British and French Press have leveled at us. ... I need not tell an American audience that these stories were as unfounded...
...Phantom Broadcast" is a cheap and melodramatic misshandling of an idea weird enough to have provided interest had it been intelligently treated...