Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...opening of Session I, Senate Leader Alben Barkley of Kentucky complained that the Congress had nothing to do. Three months later the Senate was still taking three-day recesses for want of work. As usual, in the last two or three weeks, Session I jammed through the entire legislative program in a last-minute, lickety-split finish...
Romance. A whopping chunk of the total proposed 1941 expenditures-$1,834,000,000 of the $8,424,000,000-is for Author Roosevelt's national defense program. To meet the $460,000,000 wanted for extra defense expenditures, he proposed to this election-year Congress, without batting an eye, that they pass a tax bill...
During the late "Holy War" in Catholic Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco bound up Christianity with his nationalist program and Catholics hoped that after the war the Church and the new Spain would resurge together. But the resurgence has not been notable. Last week news reached the U. S. from England, of further friction between Franco and the church...
...summer of 1938 Radio Director Dan Golenpaul asked him to appear as a guest star on NBC's Information Please program. Levant astounded radio listeners by answering glibly and accurately the most abstruse musical questions the quizzers fired at him. Soon he was engaged as a regular feature, today enjoys a reputation as U. S. music's public brain...
Jack Benny was chosen top comedian for the seventh successive time; Fred Allen second; Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's dummy, Charlie McCarthy (the people's choice in many listener surveys), third. Benny's Sunday-night program for Jell-O was voted tops, too, with Information Please second...