 It has also had a long association with the promotion of poetry in the United States, which predates Edna St. Vincent Millay's public poetry reading debut at the Hall in 1928.Henry Waters Taft was president of the League from 1919 to 1935.George V. Denny, Jr. was associate director of the League in 1935, when he became host of "America's Town Meeting of the Air", produced by the League, hosted at Town Hall, and carried on NBC Blue Network.