Sevenminute documentary on the theme, the three branches and you. To show how action by the executive, legislative or Judicial Branch by the federal government affected you in your community. Theres 200 cash prizes for student and teachers totaling 100,000. For the list of rules and how to get started, go to studentcam. Org. Up next on American History tv, author Elizabeth Cobbs hoffman describes consequences of United States role in world leadership. Asking, is america umpire or an empire. Miss hoffman argues that the u. S. Played the role of umpire since 1776 but also argues that umpires cant win. This program is sponsored by world denver. Its about an hour. Thank you so much, kay. Thank you all for being here. I cant tell you how pleased and honored i have be here addressing the World Affairs council. And especially because what i hope we will discuss tonight is i think one of the most critical conditions of our time. Which is youre not going to know it, because i didnt turn on the
Where the biggest radio industry in the world was created, up to broadway. Thats where the entertainment is. Thats where bing crosby is. Thats where jack benny is. His lifelong rival, and they were truly lifelong rivals, tsarnaev with bill paley. Paley is the son of very rich cigar making family. The family started in the ukraine. By the time they moved from chicago to philadelphia, they had made it. He went to wharton school. His dad basically bought him the station. He hated him for that. And he dated nonjewish girls. These two guys would battle for supremacy in radio, television, and then Color Television for the next half century. Its paley who links it permanently to advertising. The only business in the country supported entirely by advertising. Somebody wrote him a letter and said im getting this great entertainment, great music, who do i pay. Nobody. Paid for by advertising. And paley then hooks up with Duke Ellington. In 1928, he signs up washington, d. C. s Duke Ellington who
With new york they pioneered steel frame construction. Then they set limits on skyscrapers. I believe there should be limits on skyscrapers. This was a little too early in the game on that. The gang life in chicago is what it is portrayed stereo typically. It seems as, the new york gangsters really mistrusted people like capone because he was too quick with a gun and a machine gun. And they took care of people like that, even costello. Im not trying to present him as, you know, a man of unalloyed purity. But he never carried a gun, and madden rarely carried a gun either. They had their own enforcers, but it wasnt part of the persona, and they were knit more closely into the city. And i think what gave new york city more stability was tram am actually. And chicagos politics are rampant and wild and mercurial. They form and disappear, and theres never one consistent political machine that can stay in the city. This creates fodder for socialists and reformists and its a stew. Its a boilin
For six, seven, eight trials and you could really go after these guys like that. So you have court testimony. You have confessions. And you have terrific crime reporters. Some of the best reporters in the city were crime reporters. So theres a lot of evidence you can compile about the life of criminals, and despite, you know, without reading these ghost written, you know, auto biographies that supposedly luciano penned himself and things like that. And i think unless you do crime was so interwoven in new yorks history, in chicagos history, in detroits history that its impossible to do politics without crime and do it right. And i think historians make a big mistake by not jumping into that territory and looking for those kinds of connections, and it still is that way. Gw bridge. We can talk about that side of it. Anybody else . Yes, sir. First skyscraper built in the United States, and when, where was it built and when . Generally, generally, went into skyscrapers, thats a debate among
Record. One below zero in both reading and lancaster, and currently at one below zero in allentown, we havent technically hit records in any other location yet but within about 2 degrees, of hit that record in almost every spot right now. Windchill advisories posted, this morning generally right now, our wind chills are reading in into the teens below zero most spots, with the windchill advisories, weve got windchill warnings posted, up through the pocono region for windchill values could exceed as low as say 25, 35 below zero, folks so again, very, very dangerously cold air in place here. In philadelphia, down the shore, up in the poconos today, though, looks will be deceiving. Just sitting in the house and looking out the window it, looks beautiful. But the second you step out the door you got to be ready for t it is brutally cold this morning. Vittoria . Head inside katie. Ill take it from here. Good morning everyone, traveling out and about on the roads, till waiting for rush hour