Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...general," Graham protested. Though he was a member of the President's Civil Rights Committee, he was against any fair employment law based on compulsion, a position shared by many another conscientious Southern legislator. He was opposed to the Brannan Plan. He favored the present agricultural price-support program, said Graham. "In spite of some defects it has proved itself [by] bringing to a more equitable level the income of farmers...
...This is a red-letter day. It's the start of a carefully planned program which is going to affect the lives and pocketbooks of everyone in this room . . . Let's stop and think for a moment about happiness...
...they have since the 1870s, music-loving Cincinnatians packed the flower-banked Music Hall (capacity 3,500) to hear and applaud everything. They got no beer & pretzels program from Busch. In five days and five concerts, he offered them dumpling-heavy portions of the music he loves best: Bach, Bruckner, Mahler Mozart, Verdi (the Requiem), Wagner. On the last night, the audience in the Music Hall stood up to close the festival by roaring out the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah...
...Large. Because its stories are based on actual cases, Dragnet breaks a few taboos. A program dealing with sex criminals "drew not one official or unofficial protest," and the city of Detroit borrowed the recording (minus the advertising plugs for Fatima cigarettes) as the climax broadcast of a campaign against sex crimes. The most mail was pulled by a Christmas show called "The Rifle." It dealt with a small boy who found the hiding place of his Christmas-present rifle in plenty of time to kill a playmate. The National Rifle Association protested strongly. Webb turned their letter over...
...educator at all. But in 1921, when the Navy invalided him out (because of poisoning by corrosive gases on board ship), he turned to teaching. Except for three years during World War II, when he served as a top administrator in the Navy's training program, Adams has been working in schools and colleges ever since. Before going to the University of New Hampshire in 1948, he was assistant dean of engineering and later provost of Cornell University...