Alice Gold- farb ~ar~uis,
in Journal of ~ontem~orary History (July 1984), Sage Publications, 28 Banner St., London EC1 8QE, England.
Radio's golden age occurred during the 1930s in both Great Britain and the United States. Apart from that coincidence, virtually all that radio broadcasts in the two lands had in common was the English language.
So argues Marquis, a California historian. In America, both the Na- tional Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), founded in 1926, and the Co- lumbia Broadcasting...