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12" Discs

Box 1

1. 1-51e December 1939 - March 1940

Scope and Contents

University of Chicago Round Table ; America's Town Meeting of the Air ; American Education Forum ; Democracy in Action ; University Explorer ; Fifty years of home economics at Oregon State College ; Stanford University Hour ; Art for your sake ; Union-Management Cooperation -- speech by William Green ; The World Is Yours ; USC - UCLA football game (last 12 min.) ; Walter Winchell: News and Commentary ; Opening of congress and the President's address ; American Youth Congress address
Box 2

2. 52a-100 March - May 1940

Scope and Contents

American Education Forum ; University of Chicago Round Table ; America's Town Meeting of the Air ; Stanford University Hour ; University Explorer ; Commonwealth Club ; Symphony Intermission Talks ; Paul Reynaud, Premier of France ; H. V. Kaltenborn: News and Commentary ; John B. Hughes: News and Commentary ; Walter Winchell: News and Commentary ; Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; Pan-American Union address ; Lux Radio Theater ; Declaration of German Policy ; Over Our Coffee Cups
Box 3

3. 101-190 May - July 1940

Scope and Contents

Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; Oberlin on the Air ; Peoples Lobby ; H. V. Kaltenborn: News and Commentary ; American Education Forum ; Northwestern University: Dedication of new School of Engineering ; University of Chicago Round Table ; Walter Winchell: News and Commentary ; Address to Congress requesting special appropriations for national defense ; Bull Session: "Why did I go to college?" ; Winston Churchill ; NBC News ; Speech by King George VI of England ; Fourteenth Radio "Fireside Chat" ; Herbert Hoover speaking on National Defense ; Anthony Eden: Report of "Battle of the Ports" ; John B. Hughes: News and Commentary ; Activities in Rome during the day of Italy's entry into the war ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Speech to graduating class of University of Virginia ; President Roosevelt's reply to Premier Reynaud's appeal for aid ; Republican Convention
Box 4

4. 191-290 July - October 1940

Scope and Contents

Dupont, Stories about Chemistry ; Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; Washington Merry-Go-Round ; Fulton Lewis, Jr.: News and Commentary ; Stanford University Hour ; Democratic Convention ; H. V. Kaltenborn: News and Commentary ; Walter Winchell: News and Commentary ; Wendell L. Willkie Acceptance Speech ; University of Chicago Round Table ; Gabriel Heatter: News and Commentary ; Cavalcade of America ; Helen Hayes Theater ; Jack Benny
Box 5

5. 291-335b October - November 1940

Scope and Contents

Gabriel Heatter: News and Commentary ; Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; Cavalcade of America ; Joseph Henry Jackson ; H. V. Kaltenborn: News and Commentary ; National Vespers ; Helen Hayes Theater ; On the Home Front (PTA) ; President Roosevelt speeches ; Fulton Lewis, Jr.: News and Commentary ; John L. Lewis speaks for Willkie ; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. -- Willkie the Man ; Our Dying Democracy -- Norman Thomas ; Gen. Hugh S. Johnson for Willkie ; Our International Relations -- Cordell Hull ; National Vespers ; Senator Wagner speech answering John L. Lewis talk ; Joseph P. Kennedy: Approving defense program of New Deal ; Senator Taft Speech ; Henry Wallace Speech ; Thomas Dewey Speech ; Wilkie Speech ; Hoover Speech ; Charles L. McNary speech ; American Education Forum ; The World is Yours
Box 6

6. 335a-390 November - December 1940

Scope and Contents

Samplings of Republican Rally in New York ; Election eve speeches ; Helen Hayes Theater ; On the Home Front (PTA) ; Fulton Lewis, Jr.: News and Commentary ; Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; Cavalcade of America ; Gabriel Heatter: News and Commentary ; Stanford-Washington football game ; Joseph Henry Jackson ; Pageant of Art ; Dorothy Thompson: News and Commentary ; University Explorer ; Ted Malone -- Between the Bookends ; Wendell Willkie -- Armistice Day Address ; Wythe Williams: News and Commentary ; America's Town Meeting of the Air ; Unlimited Horizons ; National Vespers ; Joseph Henry Jackson ; Story Behind the Headlines
Box 7

7. 391-455 December 1940 - January 1941

Scope and Contents

Dorothy Thompson: News and Commentary ; University Explorer ; Gabriel Heatter: News and Commentary ; Cavalcade of America ; Wythe Williams: News and Commentary ; Unlimited Horizons ; Of men and books: Guest - Lin Yutang ; We Who Serve ; Pageant of Art ; University of Chicago Round Table ; H. V. Kaltenborn: News and Commentary ; Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; Wythe Williams: News and Commentary ; I'm an American: guest: Walter Damrosch ; Silver Theater ; Fireside Chat: "National Security" ; Lux Radio Theater ; Fulton Lewis, Jr.: News and Commentary ; Everyman's Theater ; FDR Address to 77th Congress ; New World News
Box 8

8. 456-519b January - April 1941

Scope and Contents

Dorothy Thompson: News and Commentary ; University Explorer ; Helen Hayes Theater; Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; Unlimited Horizons ; Everyman's Theater ; American Education Forum ; Helen Hayes Theater ; FDR Inauguration ; H. V. Kaltenborn: News and Commentary ; Wythe Williams: News and Commentary ; Cavalcade of America ; University of Chicago Round Table ; Winston Churchill ; American Pilgrimage
Box 9

9. 520-615 April - October 1941 (one June 1942)

Scope and Contents

Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; American Pilgrimage ; Unlimited Horizons ; Drama behind the headlines ; University Explorer ; Peoples Platform ; I'm an American ; Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy ; Cavalcade of America ; American Education Forum ; Fulton Lewis, Jr.: News and Commentary ; Stanford University 50th Anniversary ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt: July 4th Ceremony, 1941 ; University of Chicago Round Table ; H. V. Kaltenborn: News and Commentary ; Hidden History ; Interview at New York airport with Alfred Duff-Cooper ; Invitation to Learning ; FDR "shoot on sight" speech ; Standard Symphony Hour ; Freedom's People ; Mobilization for Human Needs ; America's Town Meeting of the Air ; Pause that Refreshes
Box 10

10. 616-725 November 1941 - January 1942 (one Dec. 1940)

Scope and Contents

Cavalcade of America ; Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; H. V. Kaltenborn: News and Commentary ; University Explorer ; Hidden History ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Navy Day speech ; Upton Close: News and Commentary ; America's Town Meeting of the Air ; FDR Speech to ILO - International Labor Organization ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Armistice Day Ceremony and Speech ; Stanford-Washington State football game ; Our Leased-from-Britain Naval Bases ; Over Our Coffee Cups ; Family Life ; Defense And Your Dollar ; News Bulletins - Pearl Harbor Day - First Day of War for U.S. - Dec. 7, 1941 ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Speech to joint session of Congress suggesting declaration of war, Report of the first three days of the war ; Invitation to Learning ; Bill of Rights Day, We Hold These Truths ; Fulton Lewis, Jr.: News and Commentary ; Unlimited Horizons ; Freedom's People ; Winston Churchill - Speaking to a joint session of Congress
Box 11

11. 726a-800b December 1941 - November 1942

Scope and Contents

Unlimited Horizons ; Defense and your Dollar ; Invitation to Learning ; H. V. Kaltenborn: News and Commentary ; University Explorer ; Upton Close: News and Commentary ; Winston Churchill Speaking to the Canadian Parliament ; Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; Cavalcade of America ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt: State of the Union message to 77th Congress ; America's Town Meeting of the Air ; On the Home Front (PTA) ; Foreign Policy Association ; Freedom's People ; Over Our Coffee Cups ; Fulton Lewis, Jr.: News and Commentary ; Standard Symphony Hour
Box 12

12. 801a-850 February - March 1942

Scope and Contents

Unlimited Horizons ; Winston Churchill - Speech after Fall of Singapore ; Foreign Policy Association ; Freedom's People ; Upton Close: News and Commentary ; H. V. Kaltenborn: News and Commentary ; America's Town Meeting of the Air ; This is War ; Invitation to Learning ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Take Out Your Maps" ; Over Our Coffee Cups ; United Nations at War ; March of Time ; University Explorer ; Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary
Box 13

13. 856-929 March - June 1942

Scope and Contents

This Is War ; Foreign Policy Association ; Invitation to Learning ; Upton Close: News and Commentary ; H. V. Kaltenborn: News and Commentary ; University Explorer ; Cavalcade of America ; America's Town Meeting of the Air ; Unlimited Horizons ; Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; Hitler with Pierre Huss ; March of Time ; University of Chicago Round Table ; Freedom's People ; Pause that Refreshes ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt: 7-Point non-Inflation Program ; Musical Excerpts ; Winston Churchill speech -- Report on the War ; Cavalcade of America ; Radio City Music Hall ; Bell Telephone Hour ; Voice of Firestone ; A Message from Lincoln
Box 14

14. 930-1004b June 1942 - March 1943

Scope and Contents

Foreign Policy Association ; Inivation to Learning ; Radio City Music Hall ; Upton Close: News and Commentary ; The Army Hour ; Destiny of the Hemisphere in World Affairs ; Cavalcade of America ; Fulton Lewis, Jr.: News and Commentary ; Raymond Gram Swing: News and Commentary ; Waltz Time ; Treasure Hour of Song ; Nature Sketches ; Hour of Charm ; Voice of Firestone ; Columbia Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Wendell Willkie: Report on Trip Around the World ; Wartime Censorship of News ; Roosevelt - Report to Congress on the State of the Union ; Casablanca Meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill ; Roosevelt -- First Speech after Casablanca, Washington's Birthday Address ; Madame Chiang Kai-shek - Address to Wellesley College
Box 14

15. 1005-1133, M1-M20b, no.a-m, B1a-B11, Yeats March 1937 - November 1949

Scope and Contents

Menlo Nuggets ; Poetry of W. B. Yeats, W. De la Mare, A. Marvell ; American Education Forum ; Riveting Machine Sound Effects ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt - The Supreme Court, Speaking from Monterrey, Mexico, Appeal to Coal Miners, Address to Food Conference ; Stanford University Hour ; Western Education Forum ; Roosevelt Fireside Chats ; Hitler's Speech ; Chamberlain's Speech ; Hitler's Speech at Wilhelmshaven, Germany ; American Education Forum ; The Graf Spee Incident - Montevideo, Uruguay ; University Explorer ; Boy Scouts - 31st Anniversary Program ; American Album of Familiar Music and The Hour of Charm ; Fulton Lewis, Jr.: News and Commentary ; Winston Churchill - Comments on War and Conditions in England, Address to Congress ; Anthony Eden - from Annapolis, Maryland - Pledges Britain ; Cordell Hull - Pan-American Day Address ; Leon T. Loofbourow: Alfred Lambouris -- a Study in Revision of Poetry ; Standard Symphony Hour ; Bell Telephone Hour
 

16" Discs

Box 16

1. 1027-1128 June 1944 - September 1949

Scope and Contents

Standard Symphony Hour ; D-Day excerpts ; Comments on death of President Roosevelt ; Lowell Thomas - 1st Day Back from Europe ; Fleetwood Laurton - False V-E Day Reports ; V-E Day Reports ; Lowell Thomas, V-E Day Reports ; Fleetwood Laurton ; President Truman - Report on Berlin Conference ; False Report - V-J Day ; Report on V-J Day ; Signing Japanese Surrender ; Bell Telephone Hour ; The Son of Man -- Passion Play