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...Present and future orations ... to broadcast the alleged failures of the farm board are only more of the same kind of political bunk...
Last week Detroiters went to the polls and by a plurality of 30.956 voted to recall big, bluff Charles Bowles, their mayor. The returns were broadcast exultantly to the electorate from station WMBC in the LaSalle hotel by Announcer Gerald E. ("Jerry'') Buckley. About 1 a. m. he went downstairs, bought a late newspaper, sat in the hotel lobby to read more about the result in which he, for weeks a vigorous and vocal anti-Bowles partisan, had been largely instrumental...
...first time, a U. S. Open was broadcast hole by hole. A Columbia announcer sat at a portable short-wave microphone back of the eighteenth tee and sent off reports brought to him by spry Boy Scouts...
Opera-lovers in Argentina's outlands last week tuned in by radio on the program broadcast from famed Colon Opera House at Buenos Aires, prepared to thrill to the voice of the booming Russian basso, Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin. Especially eager were they, for Chaliapin had declared that after he fulfills Argentine and Chile engagements he will return to the U. S., sing a few times, then retire...
...Infanticide Boris, Chaliapin was making up, robing in his dressing room. Wires and microphones were in readiness to flash the deep magic of Chaliapin's singing throughout the land. Time for the opening curtain neared. Suddenly, without warning, Chaliapin declared that if a single note of his were broadcast under no circumstances would he set foot on stage...