Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gustloff, had been shot and killed by a Jewish student from Yugoslavia, one David Frankfurter, who admitted frankly that his purpose was "political murder" (TIME, Feb. 17). What this meant to Adolf Hitler the emotional Realmleader told all Europe in a hastily arranged broadcast. Bawling at the top of his lungs, he cried: "You did not die in vain, Wilhelm Gustloff! My dear Party Comrade, what your Jewish murderer did not foresee was that he prepared the way for an awakening of millions and millions of Germans to a truly German way of life. ... In every office will hang Gustloff...
...reaches here at 7:30 p. m. My wife was in the other room, but when your speaker reached that incident of the broadcast, his hushed voice drew Mrs. Hinman to the radio, and I heard a sob. Mrs. Hinman was born in Yorkshire, England. I was born, and, for more than forty years, lived under the British flag, and we felt we had lost a friend...
...shall take for my text tonight," broadcast Hamlet Robinson, "Genesis, the 27th chapter, verse 22: The Voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. Alfred E. Smith sought the Presidency in 1928, when a man who raised his voice on behalf of the great causes of social justice and Democratic principles was regarded by the stock-ticker patriots with smug toleration or as a potential enemy of his country...
...forecastle will quarter some 20 Chinese seamen. Subscribing Shipmates subject to seasickness may pay the extra cost of having their bunks hung on gimbals like a binnacle. There will be twin Diesel engines to propel the craft through the windless Red Sea, and a short-wave radio to broadcast its progress to the waiting world...
Engraving prayers on pinheads may be Art for Art's sake, but making smaller & smaller radio transmitters is a matter of convenience and utility. National Broadcasting Co. last week exhibited a three-inch cubical box with slender, demountable, 10-in. antennae projecting on each side. Like the heavier portable sets which it is intended to replace, this pocket transmitter enables an announcer to roam freely at State fairs, golf tournaments, Roller Derbies and train wrecks, ready to broadcast at any instant. Weighing less than a pound, powered by a 90-volt battery which weighs some...