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America’s Town Meeting of the Air*
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Mr. Howard Claney, Announcer. — As we bring you our first Town Meeting of the new year, it is my privilege to make an important announcement about the institution under whose auspices these programs are presented in cooperation with the National Broadcasting Company. Until yesterday the name of that institution was the League for Political Education, a nonpartisan, nonsectarian educational organization founded in 1894, which built and owns New York’s Town Hall on West 43rd Street, where these meetings are held each week. Today the name of that institution is The Town Hall, Incorporated, and it ranks as one of the foremost institutions in the field of adult education. The title of the chief executive, who is our presiding officer, has been changed from that of director to president. And now I take pleasure in presenting the president of The Town Hall, Incorporated, and our moderator, Mr. George V. Denny, Jr.
Chairman George V. Denny. — Good evening, neighbors! I would like to try to answer briefly a question that has been asked many times during the fall as to how this program is financed or, in the words of one of our correspondents, “ How such a program came to happen.”
About 3 years ago. The Town Hall, Incorporated, formerly the League for Political Education, presented the National Broadcasting Company with the plan for this program and explained at the same time that we had no funds vdth which to undertake it. Very courageously, I think, IMr. John Royal, the vice-president of NBC in charge of program, agreed to try an experimental series of six programs and
* Reprinted by special permission of The Town Hall, Inc., and copjrright, 1939. The reprinted transcript is from the Town Hall bulletin, “Town Meeting,” Vol. 3, No. 10, published by Columbia University Press, 2960 Broadway, New York.
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