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...question for debate will be, "Resolved: That the Anderson Plan as embodied in the Wickersham Report is a solution of present prohibition problems." The complete program will occupy an hour and will be broadcast by every station in the Columbia network. This will be the first time an intercollegiate debate has ever been broadcast over a nation-wide system...
...inflexible resolve." With such words President Hoover last week praised Abraham Lincoln in a nation-wide radio speech, which came somewhat anticlimactically after the Pope's world-salute (see p. 40). The 31st President of the U. S. reveres the 16th above all others. The Hoover eulogy was broadcast from the Lincoln study in the White House, amid Lincoln chairs, pictures, tables, plaques. A Lincoln clock, six minutes late, chimed from the mantel...
...Chicago, Ill., Mr. & Mrs. John Pappas and Christ Kratcikas were listening to a radio-broadcast account of a holdup. Said John Pappas: "Say, no stickup guys could stick me up." Just then entered three well-armed thugs. John Pappas and Christ Kratcikas nervously put up their hands. Mrs. Ruth Pappas, with upraised arm, edged toward a shelf, seized a pistol, fired. One thug fell dead. A second howled, dived under a bed, popped up on the other side, leaped from the window. The third grabbed his fallen confederate, fled...
...care from poisoned pastures. . . . For now, alas! not secretly or under cover, but openly, with all sense of shame put aside, now by word, again by writings, by theatrical productions of every kind, by romantic fiction, by amorous and frivolous novels, by cinematographs portraying in vivid scene, addresses broadcast by radio telephony, in short by all the inventions of modern science, the sanctity of marriage is trampled upon and derided; divorce, adultery, all the basest vices either are extolled or at least depicted in such colors as to appear to be free of all reproach and infamy...
Came last week the first Italian radio broadcast to the U. S., and the first broadcast by Signore Benito Mussolini in English - a language he learned on a promise...