"Three or four men who control the radio networks have arbitrarily shut off from the air the voice of this great gathering." With these dark words, echoed by rabid applause, Chairman John Thomas Flynn opened America First's big rally in Madison Square Garden.
Mr. Flynn had been reaching all week for a martyr's crown to put on the head of America First. At the moment Mr. Flynn was able to make his sweeping declamation because Mutual Broadcasting System, which recorded the entire rally, had time free to rebroadcast only Senator Burton K. Wheeler's half-hour.
Neither NBC nor CBS broadcast any of the proceedings....
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