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Florence Ellinwood Allen, onetime Cleveland Plain Dealer musicritic, sits as judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati. Mrs. Frances Perkins Wilson is Secretary of Labor. The 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920. Still forbidden women in 26 States, however, is another prime privilege of a citizen-the right to serve as jurors...
...busman's holiday. Soberly they attend dozens of conventions, read thousands of papers, talk shop, elect officers, award prizes, take stock of a year's progress, get their names in the newspapers, mingle with a sprinkling of industrial colleagues. Last week geologists convened in Cincinnati, geographers in Syracuse, mathematicians in Durham, N. C., philosophers in Cambridge, astronomers in Frederick, Md. (see p. 52), anthropologists in Washington, chemists in Manhattan and Princeton. As usual, the biggest and best publicized gathering was that of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which had chosen Atlantic City for a meeting...
...chain broadcasting, Federal control of licensing and the scarcity of radio stations not tied up with N. B. C. or C. B. S., successful emergence of a rival network with coast-to-coast outlets depended largely upon co-operation of three potent Eastern and Midwestern independents-WOR, Newark; WLW, Cincinnati; WGN, Chicago-and upon securing Pacific Coast facilities...
Soon after M. B. S. was organized, an advertiser wanted WLW as a Cincinnati outlet for his program in addition to VOR and WGN. Operated by Powel Crosley Jr., who makes radios and controls the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, WLW is the most powerful radio station in the U. S. (500,000 watts). It soon became a cooperating member of the Mutual net work. On June 1, 1935 M. B. S. began trading sustaining programs with the Canadian Radio Commission, and in September added CKLW (Windsor, Ont.) to the network. Canadian programs gave U. S. listeners variety and CKLW gave...
Pianist Serkin scored his second Manhattan triumph three days after his second Chicago one. Later this season he will play twice more in New York. Other engagements will take him to Winnipeg, Cincinnati, Toronto, Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Dallas. Next March he sails again for Europe...