Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defensive. In rapid succession, the President would deliver three messages: on the state of the union, on economic conditions, on the federal budget. But, aside from counseling the Congress against immediate tax reductions, he was expected to do little more than renew his pleas for a European Recovery Program and for compulsory anti-inflation controls...
...champion of a bipartisan foreign policy, was not committed to ERP in its entirety. This week the President agreed to one Vandenberg suggestion: the Administration bill would be modified by eliminating the $17 billion, four-year target figure. Instead it would simply have a clause approving the four-year program in principle, and authorize a $6.8 billion appropriation for the first 15 months only. The way things looked now, the Administration would be lucky to get an authorization for as much as $5 billion. And it could not expect to get final congressional approval of ERP until...
River to Cross. The radio networks, which rebroadcast some of their shows to iron out time differences over the country, won a grudging reprieve. They would be permitted to make program transcriptions until Jan. 31, when their contracts with A.F.M. end. Petrillo and the broadcasters would start discussing new contracts next week in Manhattan. It was anybody's guess whether they would come to terms or whether every musician would be yanked...
...down to 35 members, dressed in smart gabardine battle-jacket uniforms (they call them "costumes" now), de Paur's Infantry Chorus whisked expertly through a diverse program from 16th Century Palestrina to U.S. contemporary Composer Paul Creston, who has arranged works especially for them. Critics gave them good marks for diction, blending of voices and clarity of line, and for a welcome versatility of material which the Don Cossack choruses lack. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "[This choir] could, without half trying, raise the whole level of our current taste in semi-popular music...
...first really profitable year, 1946, his income was $220,000, of which he kept $46,000. He recently bought a $50,000 house in the Thomas Mann-Joseph Cotten neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, and is putting whatever money he can salvage into a heavy annuity program...