Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Sigler had finished, the legislature was seething with charges and countercharges. Rising up with accusing finger, State Senator William Vandenberg* shouted at his colleagues: "You are the men who killed the governor's program because of your vindictiveness." Snapped one of the accused: "I don't want him, you can have him, he's two-faced...
...Federal Council of Churches presented to President Truman a seven-point program for "averting war without yielding sound democratic principles." Highlights: no complacency, hysteria or fatalism about war; economic, social and moral programs to combat Communism, rather than military strategy; renewed vigor of the churches in testifying to God's love and Christian fellowship...
Despite its title, Inside U.S.A. gives little sense of satirizing the American scene, or of really exploring the U.S. with Gunther and camera. It is simply a revue which-in the program, at any rate-is attentive to geography. Where associations are virtually unavoidable-as of New Orleans with the Mardi Gras, New Mexico with the Indians, or Chicago with crime-they have not been avoided. Otherwise the actual locale is of little value or even validity: a county fair labeled Wisconsin, for example, smacks a lot more of Oklahoma...
...Breneman (Smith), 47, folksy star of radio's Breakfast in Hollywood; of a heart attack; in Encino, Calif. A onetime pianologuing vaudevillian, he charmed U.S. housewives with homey gallantry and life-of-the-party gags on his immensely popular (estimated audience: ten million), seven-year-old breakfast program...
Died. William S. (Signius Wilhelm Poul) Knudsen, 69, plain-spoken mass production genius, who left the General Motors presidency in 1940 to direct the U.S. armament program; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Detroit. Danish-born "Big Bill" Knudsen arrived in the U.S. with $30 in 1899, went to work in a shipyard, got a job in 1911 with Henry Ford and became his right-hand man. After a policy row in 1921, he went over to G.M. and soon made Chevrolet the competitor that killed the Model...