Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such New Deal measures as the food-stamp plan and the free school lunches, which had worked well. In short, Secretary Anderson, while making sure the farmers know they have a friend in the White House, is also trying to get around some of the pitfalls of the present program...
...critics of the support program thought Anderson had not gone far enough; farm groups thought that he had gone too far. Edward O'Neal, president of the potent American Farm Bureau Federation, objected to the lowering of the support level as well as the food-stamp plan. Ed O'Neal, who would rather keep prices up by planned scarcity, said that the federation is "profoundly opposed to feeding surplus food to low-income groups" except as a "desperate measure." It looked as if Clint Anderson's program would get some strong hoeing in Congress before it grows...
When Sy first asked Marie to be on his show, she squealed, "I'm scared. It's too hard for me to read." And it is: her lines in the script are all typed in capital letters. There are other difficulties, too. Once, when the program was on the air, Sy waved a frantic cue at her from the director's box, and Marie dazedly waved back. Another time, when a special speech by Senator Taft forced cancellation of an Irma broadcast, Sy broke the bad news: "Senator Taft's coming on in place...
Invitation to Music (Sun. 11:30 p.m., CBS), the only U.S. network program that gives modern composers a ready and frequent hearing: Canteloube De Malaret's Chants d'Auvergne. Soloist: Mezzo-Soprano Evelyn Pasen...
...separated this week's national conventions of the CIO and AFL is strictly coincidental in terms of organized labor's unity in the coming countrywide elections. On the surface the unions may appear a long way apart. CIO's president calls for a meeting "to formulate an immediate joint program" and the AFL hierarchy declines in a huff. But under the surface of intra-labor jockeying the plain fact persists that both CIO and AFL have common political aims in the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and the defeat of its Congressional supporters...