Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...midpoint in the Civil War, some of Abraham Lincoln's fellow Republicans wanted him to dump Secretary of State Seward, as the "unseen hand" and "evil genius" who would not press for the immediate abolition of slavery. The dissidents, all congressional extremists, met secretly so as not to broadcast their lack of confidence in the Government at a perilous moment. Lincoln found out about the plot, maneuvered the extremists into backing down...
There were visiting celebrities, too--Johnny Pesky of the Red Sox and Mickey Harris of the Senators ("friends of the management"). Pesky gave a half-hour broadcast in which he mixed commentary on the Sox with praise of the new automobiles...
...most programs, however, there is voiced a strong dislike of socialism--or anything they think tends towards it. The broadcasts are very well written; one thought follows the next in very smooth, logical fashion. But every now and then a person may question the entire premise underlying a broadcast without finding a weakness in the program's internal construction...
...American brand of socialism (is) called the New Deal or Fair Deal--a misnomer if ever there was one." Later in the broadcast, America's Future's speaker explained, "In a planned socialist economy, the state steps in an determines the terms of the bargain, from which there is no appeal; and enforces its decisions by violence. Obviously, state control of the market controls directly the amount any individual may earn, spend, or save...
After this talk, the informal reminiscing of friends and past members of WHRB will be broadcast. Dean Leighton, Thornton Wilder, Norton Professor of Poetry, and Archibald MacLeish, Bolyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, have been invited to take part in these discussions...