Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...headlines about U. S. conscription, headlines about the U. S. Presidential campaign. Franklin Roosevelt, as usual, made headlines too-some as President, some as candidate. As candidate he made a fighting speech before a Labor audience (see below). As President, he received from Congress the capstones of his defense program : 1) conscription of man power, along with unprecedented peacetime powers to draft industry as well; 2) a $5,000,000,000 supplemental Defense Bill, to equip the new Army and launch a world-beating two-ocean Navy...
...nowhere else was the farm political picture so clear. Colorado and Texas cattlemen were vehemently opposed to the Administration farm program-but in both State's the farmers who far outnumbered them were not. The feeling for Wallace, vague, contradictory, possessive, was compounded of many things-admiration for him personally, respect for his honest expression of his views, a conviction that he is sincerely for them, a belief that they may criticize him in a way that his political opponents should...
...form whose devotees take it with sometimes painful seriousness. Ordinary folk almost feel that they should take off their shoes before they go in to listen. National Broadcasting Co. shares the general reverence, but last summer it began giving out "chamber music" that was different. Last week an NBC program, whose popularity had lifted it from a Sunday-afternoon to a Monday-evening spot (9 p.m. E. D. S. T.), started with a bland announcement...
Jazz purists are no less vestal-vinegary than long-haired music lovers, and not much more numerous. (What the great public calls jazz is mere popular music. ) The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street is irreverent in both directions. Announcer Gene Hamilton ("Dr. Gino"), who ordinarily handles such programs as the NBC Symphony and the Firestone hour, solemnly voices puns, non sequiturs (written by Scripter Welbourn Kelley), identifies a composition as "Opus 33, First Door to the Left," or "a small-fry rhapsody with no particular point," or "a slightly undernourished D Minor." Vice presidents seem to fascinate...
Endorsing the new program, Commissioner Downey said today, "The communities in this section of the country the taxpayers, town officials, and the school executives,--greatly need the help which such a plan will afford at the present time. During this period when educational needs and tax budgets are being thoroughly weighed by many different groups it is essential that clear judgments be formed, with due regard to educational standards, a proper return for each tax dollar spent and vigilant care of the present-day needs of the children in our schools...