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Town meeting a twenty year cavalcade
Title
Town meeting [sound recording] : a twenty year cavalcade.
Published
[New York?] : Heritage, [1955]
Physical Description
1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.
Notes
Originally broadcast 1935-1955.
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.
Variant and related titles
America's town meeting of the air (Radio program)
Format
Audio
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 27, 2012
Performers
John Daly, narrator.
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.
Issue number
LP-H-0059 Heritage
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