Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next year Congress passed the 1927 Radio Act, created the Federal Radio Commission to regulate the industry "for the public convenience, interest or necessity." Thus was established the principle that private ownership and operation of a radio station is a Government granted privilege and the FRC (from which in 1934 the Federal Communications Commission inherited its powers) became the dispenser of the privilege. The law now allows maximum three year licenses. The Commission makes them subject to a renewal petition by the broadcaster every six months. Last year, with Republican Senator White of Maine and others baying that a sharp...
...Blue). Second act by short wave from Florence Music Festival with Gina Cigna and Beniamino Gigli...
There he immediately took a sharply regulatory attitude and by more than one opinion established himself, to the dismay of his Republican sponsor, as a New Dealer before the New Deal began. Power Commissioner McNinch attacked holding companies two years before the Roosevelt Public Utility Act...
...Affairs John Collier, threatened a sitdown strike against Tim McCoy unless he: 1) came through with back pay, 2) furnished more than one clean shirt a week, 3) provided free war paint. Sent back to the show by Collier, the Sioux refused to perform. In a big frontier-drama act where white men were supposed to make Indians bite the dust, for two performances there was not a Sioux Indian to bite...
...days after a stormy Atlantic crossing, German Opera Star Lotte Lehmann trotted out on the stage of London's Covent Garden * to sing the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. In the middle of the first act and a high note she stopped singing. Shouting in English "I can't go on," she rushed from the stage, fell in a dead faint. From a stage box stepped the Viennese soprano, Hilde Konetzni, due to make her London debut the next night. Dressmakers hastily pinned up Diva Lehmann's costumes to fit Hilde Konetzni's shorter, plumper figure. Whereupon...