Taking a break from Politics and think pieces this Friday night and heading into an Americana direction with an episode of The Rex Allen Show, as it was broadcast over CBS Radio on September 22, 1950 (also a Friday night). And if you think this half-hour slice of homespun humor
A nation at peace, an uncertain world, and the growing cost of national security In the spring of 1948, the United States found itself confronting a question that seemed almost unimaginable only a few years earlier. Having emerged victorious from the Second World War, the country had dismantled much of
October 2, 1940 – Mutual – John Steele Report From London – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 2, 1940 – News for this day was about the continuing air-bombardment of London and cities throughout England by the German air force. Reported from London by John Steele for Mutual, Steele
The Office of Price Administration: Holding the Line on the Home Front By December 1944, the Office of Price Administration had become one of the most visible—and controversial—agencies of the American home front. In a talk delivered on December 18, 1944, OPA Administrator Chester Bowles defended an agency whose mission
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In 1948 work was underway to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the legendary Great Exhibition of 1851, which was to have taken place in 1951. But in 1948, the idea of celebrating seemed remote in many ways – celebrating England of 1851 seemed more the celebration of a fantasy
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia sits down and gives a 15 minute rundown on where you can go for the Labor Day holiday. Needless to say, with America now hot in the grips of War, finding those “places to escape” were becoming fewer and farther between. But LaGuardia, ever the optimist and
September 4, 1949 – the end of a busy week throughout the world. Starting with news from Belgrade of a split between Yugoslavia and The Soviet Union. Yugoslav leader Marshall Tito, a former supporter of Joseph Stalin, had second thoughts about the goings-on in Moscow and offered a stinging
– NBC Radio – Report On America: Toledo – October 15, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In sharp contrast to the nature of American cities in 2026, looking at the average American city in 1949 offers up a huge difference between the city of the past and the
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