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BEST PUBLIC DISCUSSION (PREPARED)
H ow Can Government and Business Work Together?
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IT WAS on May 30, 1935, that the Town Crier’s voice and bell first resounded from the loud-speakers of the nation, announcing an uncensored, spontaneous discussion, based on the New England town meeting idea. Thus Town Hall, New York, which had been carrying forward a program of public enlightenment since its founding in 1894 as the League for Political Education, had lengthened its shadow till it stretched to the Pacific Coast. All the more remarkable was this growth when it is realized that this institution grew out of the efforts of six women who wished to prove their right to the ballot by improving their political equipment.
The man who conceived the idea for America’s Town Meeting of the Air and who subsequently piloted the new program to its remarkable success is George V. Denny, Jr., moderator of the program and president of Town Hall, New York. Shocked by examples of political intolerance on every side, Denny, at that time associate director of the League for Political Education, sensed the possibilities of a radio program that would make it essential for a man to listen to all sides in order to hear his own. Thus Town Hall could do nationally, over the air, what it had been doing locally in New York for over forty years.
Town Hall’s Radio Forum Division, directed by Marian S. Carter, plans and schedules individual programs, obtains the speakers, arranges preliminary open forums, coordinates Town Hall’s efforts with those of the Educational Department of the National Broadcasting Company.
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