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...Boston, a squad of the Harvard Debating Council was selected yesterday from which two men will be chosen to represent the University against the Oxford debaters in December. The meet will be the first intercollegiate debate ever held over the radio between different countries and will be broadcast over an international network both here and abroad. The Harvard team will be picked within two weeks from among the following men: P. H. Cohen '32, C. L. Harriss '34, M. A. Hoffman '34, A. E. Phillips, Jr. '34, P. C. Reardon '32, J. H. Ruskin '33, and D. M. Sullivan...
George was to radio an appeal for British votes the British Broadcasting Corporation cancelled arrangements to broadcast his words through the U. S. Britons heard him say, "There is more actual privation through unemployment in one American city than in the whole of Britain! . . . Spectre of bankruptcy stalking through . . . America. . . . 2,000 banks have crashed!" Most of these U. S. catastrophes Free Trader Lloyd George blamed on the U. S. Republican tariff, exhorted Britons to vote Free Trade (i. e. for the small wing of the Liberal Party still led by Mr. Lloyd George, other Liberals having rallied to support...
...listeners were able to hear the little man in his first radio broadcast last week.* Several radio stations claimed credit for the hookup. It was due to the enterprise of Newark's WOR alone. At the appointed time St. Gandhi refused to be hustled from his dates and milk; his flustered hostess, Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley House, was forced to ad lib for many minutes. At length the Mahatma approached the microphone, prayed for a few moments silently. Then millions of U. S. listeners heard his first words: "Do I have to speak into this thing...
Without notes, speaking slowly, distinctly, the Mahatma talked for 20 minutes. Throughout the broadcast the voices of children playing in the streets outside could be heard. Said...
Died. Dr. Harry Phillips Davis. 63. "father of radio telephone broadcasting.'' founder of station KDKA in Pittsburgh which sent out the Harding-Cox election returns in 1920 in the world's first public broadcast: board chairman of National Broadcasting Co. since its founding, vice president of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.; of the effects of a recent operation; in Wilkinsburg...