America's Town Meeting of the Air

June 14, 1935, Will the Demands of Organized Labor Promote Recovery?: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

December 5, 1935, Has the New Deal Promoted or Retarded Business Recovery?: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

December 12, 1935, Personal Liberty and the Government: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

December 19, 1935, Should We Plan for Social Security?: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

March 19, 1936, The Supreme Court and the Constitution: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

April 2, 1936, Will Unionization Promote Industrial Recovery?: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

April 16, 1936, Will the Machine Dominate Man?: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

November 5, 1936, Public Opinion and the Town Meeting Idea, with Dorothy Thompson, writer; Lawrence Dennis, former diplomat; and Scott Nearing, sociologist.

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November 26, 1936, with Fred Waring, Mme. Olga Samaroff-Stokowski, Dr. Frank Black, Albert Stoessel, Prof. William Lyon Phelps on "What Does the Public Want in Music?"

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December 23, 1937, medical care, discussed by Dr. R.C. Christie, Dr. Kingsley Roberts, Dr. Gilbert W. Haigh.

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February 3, 1938, Isaac Don Levine, Dr. Ruth Alexander, Clarence A. Hathaway, Max Lerner on "What Does Democracy Mean?"

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December 1, 1938, Is An Economic Plan for World Peace Possible? Former Premier of Belgium Van Zeeland presents his plan on international collaboration. One of the panel members rips into him as just another European trying to empty America's pocketbook.

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December 8, 1938, How Should the Democracies Deal With the Dictatorships?

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December 15, 1938, What Is America's Greatest Need at This Moment? Will Durant, famed historian, is on the panel, among others.

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January 12, 1939, Do We Have a Free Press? Publisher Frank Gannett and Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes talk on "free press."

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February 16, 1939, Has Twentieth Century Civilization Improved Mankind? With William Lyon Phelps, of Yale university, Prof. Teinhold Niebuhr, of Union Theological seminary, Garlow Shapley, director of Harvard observatory, and Walter Wanger, film producer.

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March 2, 1939, Are the Schools Doing Their Job?

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March 23, 1939, Measures to curtail activities of political groups with alien ties will be discussed by two politically opposed public officials and a political scientist. Speakers discussing the subject, "Should We Limit the Rights of Political Groups With Alien Ties?" will be Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R., N.J.), vice-chairman of the Dies committee; Jerome Frank, securities and exchange commissioner, and Harold J. Lasswell, a professor of political science.

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April 20, 1939, Five representatives of American youth with answer the question, Can We Depend Upon Youth to Follow the American Way?"

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Surprised and grateful to be picking up a few fills here... wish I could better return the favor, but for the dates covered so far I've only got HALF an item to offer (part 1 of the show described below):

America's Town Meeting Of The Air. November 10, 1938. Blue Network. "Where Will the Munich Settlement Lead; Will It Be Peace Or War?". Sustaining. The first show of the season. George V. Denny Jr. (moderator), Milton Cross (announcer), Felix Morely (Editor of The Washington Post, former Director of the Geneva Office of The League Of Nations Association), Hugh Johnson (former Director of the N. R. A.), Ann O'Hare McCormick (member of the editorial staff of The New York Times)

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Thanks for the help.

Next up, October 19, 1939. Speakers Anne O'Hara McCormick of the New York Times, John Gunther, author of "Inside Europe" and "Inside Asia," and Jay Cooke Allen, Jr., of Esquire syndicate, will be heard on the subject, "What Are the Real Issues in the European War?"

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November 16, 1939, Anatomist, two anthropologists speak on "Should We Ignore Racial Differences?"

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November 23, 1939, "What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?" — W. Selden Washington, great-great-great-grand-nephew of George Washington; Alice Salomon, refugee from, Germany; Pietro Di Donate, author of "Christ in Concrete;" Rep. Jerry Voorhis (D. Calif.); Chairman Jack McMichael of American Youth congress; Dr. E. McNeil O'Peat, Jr., Baptist pastor, and Mary McCloud Bethune, head of colored division, National Youth Administration.

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(Only a 5:46 segment)

December 7, 1939, Can Business and Government Work Together Today?

The problem of business vs. government is discussed by high-ranking representatives of both fields. Speakers are Jerome Frank, chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission; William McC. Martin, president of the New York Stock exchange; Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., Ohio), and Floyd Odlum, industrial leader.

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Thanks for the programs Bob

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January 18, 1940, Does America Need Compulsory Health Insurance?

The speakers are Dr. Terry M. Townsend, president of the Medical Society of the State of New York; Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, director of the Institute of the History of Medicine and Johns Hopkins university, and Dr. C.E.A. Winslow, professor of public health at Yale university.

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January 25, 1940, Should the President's National Defense Program Be Adopted?

Major George Fielding Eliot, Rep. Melvin J. Maas, Oswald Garrison Villard, and William T. Stone on the president's defense program.

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Many thanks Cobalters--I picked up four so far.

March 7, 1940, What Should America Do for the Joads? A discussion about the ficticious family featured in the novel, "The Grapes of Wrath." A spirited discussion and a fine example of this series.

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April 11, 1940, What Are the Essential Differences Between the Republican and Democratic Parties?

Dr. Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republican program committee, debates Attorney General Jackson on the essential differences between the Republican and Democratic parties.

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December 12, 1940. Speakers will be Colby M. Chester, board chairman of General Foods Corp., and Dr. Harry Overstreet, president of the American Assn. for Adult Education. Stanley High will be special interrogator with George V. Denny, Jr., as moderator. The subject: "What Are We Preparing to Defend?"

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