Radio's listening public shapes program policy across networks
Gordon Greenwood discusses how listeners directly react to radio content, prompting networks like NBC to enforce self-imposed rules against slander and privacy invasion. He cites cases from feared broadcasts about gas outages, Orson Welles, and Dartmouth deaths, noting regional sensitivities and the need for experience guided judgment.
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Western Newspaper Union
York
National Broadcasting Company
NBC
A. A. Schechter
Atlantic
Orson Welles
Mars
Welles
Schéchter
Hanover
N.H
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth
Switzerland Defends Its 142 Year Neutrality With Modern Fortifications
Swiss defense systems and mobilization prowess are described as up to the minute. The piece highlights automatic tank barriers, top anti aircraft units, and decentralized infantry to deter modern threats. It notes historic commanders and the tongue twisting Landsverteidigungskommission as center of national defense.
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Erne
Switzerland
Dufour
Herzog
Wille
Army
Landesverteidigungskommission
Board of National Defense
St. Gotthard
Simplon
Death in the Foreign Legion yarn from North Africa 1923
Lieutenant Pierre Varges of Queens New York recalls the 16 April 1923 clash with the Riff Kabilas near El Harib Morocco. He was believed dead after a cave in crew burial, later revived and saved by hospital doctors.
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Foreign Legion
Ello
North Africa
Sahara
Pierre Varges
Queens
N. Y
French Foreign Legion
Abd el Krim
The
Legion
el Harib
Morocco
Pierré
Pierre
Union
Roses as emblems in English military history
The rose has symbolized English history from the Wars of the Roses 1455–1485 to the Seven Years War. Red roses marked Lancaster and white for the Black Prince. Somerset allegedly wore roses in Temple garden for Lancaster supporters. During Minden 1759 British regiments wore roses and later yellow roses to honor predecessors, with Lancashire Fusiliers conducting silent toasts.
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England
House of York
Lancaster
Edmund
Earl
Caster
York
Minden
Garden Digest
Lancashire
Fusiliers
Household Questions and Home Care Tips
A collection of everyday kitchen and home advice. Includes making salmon cucumber sandwich fillings with mayonnaise, draining boiled vegetables for stock, choosing light weight blankets for comfort, vinegar in rinse water to protect wool stockings, pressing decorations into cookie dough, and conditioning new clothes pegs by boiling water soak to prevent splitting.
Nose Famed Flower Show Host Faces Paper Parody
Local horticulturist Smith, organizer and prize winner, reads a rowdy report in the paper. The article mocks his prize nose display as the show opens, prompting his angry reaction at home with Mrs. Smith listening.
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Smith
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