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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1945: Mayor F. H. La Guardia reads Little Orphan Annie to New York City's children during the newspaper deliverymen's strike.
1954: The New York Academy of Medicine's celebration meeting on Dr. Paul Ehrlich's hundredth anniversary, 1854-1954. Ehrlich received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contributions to immunology.
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November 9, 1981
Beginning November 9 and running through the month, the eight-part documentary recounts the experiences and feelings of civil servants, construction workers, sandhogs, secretaries and other city workers, in their own words, through taped interviews. New Yorkers at Work also presents a capsule history of the American labor movement, as told by leaders and members of New York City unions. Listen to the series here: New Yorkers At Work. (Photo: WNYC/Wagner Labor Archives)
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May 22, 1939
'Father of American Anthropology' Launches Give Me Liberty Series
Columbia Professor Franz Boas hosts the first program in the series, Give Me Liberty on freedom and science. Subsequent shows cover democracy and American literature, democracy in education, democracy and race and the Bill of Rights, among other topics. The series is backed by the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, an organization of scientists established to fight fascism. For more see: BOAS
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