Radio in Government Documents: 1930-1939

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For Selective FDLs

• U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Home Economics. Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes Revised by Ruth Van Deman and Fanny Walker Yeatman. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931. (A 42.2:R 24/3).
  

• U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Radio Markets of the World, 1932  by Lawrence D. Batson [Electrical Equipment Division]. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1932.  

• U.S.  Department of Commerce. Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. World Short-Wave Radiophone Transmitter compiled by Lawrence D. Batson. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1934. (Radio Market Series).

• U.S. State Department. International telecommunication convention general radio regulation, and separate radio protocol. [all signed by delegates of United States to International Radio Conference at Madrid, Dec.9, 1932]. Jan 27, 1934. 162 p. il. (Confidential; Senate executive B, 73d Cong. 2d sess.) [Injunction of secrecy removed Apr. 17, 1934.] Washington: Government Printing Office, 1934.

• U.S. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce.  Construction and Operation of a Radio-Broadcasting Station Designed To Promote Friendly Relations Among the Nations of the Western Hemisphere Hearings, May 12, 18, 19, 23, 1938. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1938. (Y 4.In 8/3:R 11/8).

• Studebaker, Gordon. "Promoting School Broadcasts," School Life 24:2 (Nov. 1938) p.52-54.(Issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior).
  
  
• Federal Communications Commission. Address of Frank R. McNinch, chairman: Radio and the Bill of Rights. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939. 11 leaves, 4 [Processed.]

• Boutwell, William Dow. "Trends in Education by Radio," School Life 24:8 (May 1939) p. 232. (Issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior).

• U.S. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce. To Prohibit the Advertising of Alcoholic Beverages by Radio Hearings, Mar. 29, 31, 1939.

• Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939. (Y 4.In 8/3:Al 1).

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"Trends in Education by Radio,"
School Life, May 1939

Cabinet for Radioreceivers, 1933

Radio Cabinet, 1939