As a lad in the early 1930's I was aware that grownups were having a great deal of difficulty making ends meet, and my grandfather's nightly attention to the radio news didn't escape my notice. Any children who happened to be in the living room while he was absorbed in the evening news and commentary had to be silent under threat of being banished to their bedrooms. I can still picture that console radio with its antenna running to a flat strip under the window sash and thence to a long length of copper wire fastened, with ceramic insulators, from the house to a tree some seventy-five feet away.
Potiphar Gride recalls the beginnings of government intrusions into economic affairs.
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