Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything seemed to be going wrong at Bonn. The Social Democratic Party bitterly fought the Western Powers' "interference" in the work of the constitutional convention because it tended to impose too many limitations upon German sovereignty. The Western Allies, cried the Socialists, were trying to create a federal republic...
A sickroom air hung this week over Chicago's Stevens Hotel as 1,500 radiomen gathered for the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. Instead of milling happily in & out of hotel suites for three days with drinks in their hands, the delegates sat glumly and listened...
Merlin Aylesworth, first president of NBC and now an adman, had just published his own warning that radio was doomed. He predicted that radio, as the U.S. now knows it, will be wiped out by TV within three years. Speaking to the convention in the gilt and glitter of the...
Genial, bumbling Justin Miller, NAB's $75,000-a-year president, told the convention that he saw a faint light of hope. "I'm not so pessimistic as Wayne Coy or 'Deac' Aylesworth," he assured the delegates. "As long as radio profits are necessary to finance...
Early in the afternoon, the convention's glossy program was practically discarded. Acts were switched, Adolph Kiefer didn't show up for his "Around the World" novelty number, and all sorts of unannounced performers bounded around in the pool. A predominantly female audience cheered an all-female series of "synchronized...