Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference of all radio interests, and a definite broadcasting band was set aside. This solution was only temporary. Stations grew steadily in number and power until all wave lengths were occupied. The Department of Commerce thereupon declined to issue any more licenses. A 1926 Federal court decision threw the whole situation into chaos again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length assignments, that stations were free to pick their own wave lengths, to wander at will through the frequencies. More than 200 stations jumped into the air in less than a year...
...valuable a natural resource to be left free from State control. In that corner-the private broadcasters who have an estimated $150,000,000 invested in plant, who last year made some $140,000,000 from time sales, and gave a 24-hour free show 365 days to a whole nation...
...passed, 40-38. Said Congressman Fuller: "Whether they are the Chic Sale kind or the kind that the gentleman from Michigan wrote into this bill, we ought to limit the size. We ought to know whether they will build them for one or two or three or for the whole neighborhood. ... If there is any place in the country where they need them it is down in Texas, where you have to drive sometimes 100 miles to get to a filling station...
Meanwhile, in Germany last week it became known that one bishop, out of the whole German hierarchy, had deliberately abstained from voting in last month's plebiscite. That one, Bishop Johann Baptist Sproll, head of the Church in Württemberg, had immediately been informed by the secret police that his security could not be guaranteed. He left his episcopal seat, Rottenburg, but presently returned. Last week the Nazi governor of Württemberg, Wilhelm Murr, demanded that Bishop Sproll resign his post, on the grounds that his "disloyalty" to the State was a violation of the 1933 concordat...
...from a satiric ballet summarizing the Senate filibuster against the Anti-Lynching Bill. Blaring out, through a loudspeaker, verbatim excerpts from the speeches of Senator Ellender and Bilbo, prancing about in a good deal of pantomimic horseplay, Filibuster slid now & then into a fancy-tickling moment, as when a whole stageful of Senators suddenly started playing with toys...