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Town meeting a twenty year cavalcade.

Title
Town meeting [sound recording] : a twenty year cavalcade.
Author
Daly, John Charles, 1914-
Publication
[New York?] : Heritage, [1955]

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Description
1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
Summary
Presents excerpts from radio broadcasts of the program, America's town meeting of the air, in commemoration of its twentieth anniversary. Includes critical debate and discussion of domestic and international issues by various public figures.
Uniform Title
America's town meeting of the air (Radio program)
Subject
  • United Nations
  • Freedom of the press > United States
  • Hunger
  • Communism > United States
  • Civil rights > United States
  • Juvenile delinquency > United States
  • Comic books, strips, etc
  • Peace of mind
  • Radio programs
  • United States > Politics and government
  • United States > Foreign relations > 20th century
Note
  • Program notes by William R. Traum on container.
Event (note)
  • Originally broadcast 1935-1955.
Contents
The struggle between government and business : Robert H. Jackson and Wendell Wilkie -- The New Deal : Harold L. Ickes and General Hugh S. Johnson -- How free a press? : Harold L. Ickes and publisher Frank E. Gannett -- Negotiate with Russia? : Jan Masaryk -- Intervention in Europe : Dean Acheson and Verne Marshall -- Lend-lease for Britain : Norman Thomas and Wendell Wilkie -- A fourth term for F.D.R. : John Sparkman and Edward R. Burke -- The United Nations, promise and performance : Senator Tom Connally, Raymond Swing, H.V. Kaltenborn, Trygve Lie, and Adlai E. Stevenson -- Hunger in the world : Fiorello LaGuardia -- Democracy's mission in Asia : Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru -- The Far East, war and communism : Senator William F. Knowland, Richard M. Nixon, Senator John Sparkman, Dr. You Chan Yang, and Thomas E. Dewey -- The welfare state : Oscar L. Chapman and Senator Robert A. Taft -- Should the communist party be outlawed? : Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and Governor Ellis Arnall -- The Army-McCarthy hearings : Godfrey P. Schmidt and Norman Thomas -- Equal rights : Walter White -- Juvenile delinquency : Father Edward J. Flanagan -- The comics : John Mason Brown and Al Capp -- Peace of mind and man : Arnold J. Toynbee, Billy Graham, and Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebmann.
Call Number
*LRX 8396
LCCN
r 57001212
OCLC
36992871
Author
Daly, John Charles, 1914- Narrator
Title
Town meeting [sound recording] : a twenty year cavalcade.
Imprint
[New York?] : Heritage, [1955]
Performer
John Daly, narrator.
Event
Originally broadcast 1935-1955.
Added Title
America's town meeting of the air (Radio program)
Publisher No.
LP-H-0059 Heritage
Research Call Number
*LRX 8396 Program notes on container.
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