Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cissie Loftus (Sun. 2 p. m. NBC-Blue) heads Magic Key bill, impersonates theatrical colleagues...
Representative Celler comes from Brooklyn, and so has a very real and very natural dread of Naziism. Fundamentally he designed his bill to provide the U. S. with means of competing with short-wave propaganda regularly broadcast for the past four or five years from Europe's totalitarian countries. Of the 30-odd bills pending in House & Senate to muscle Government further into radio, the Celler Bill is closest to the hearing stage and is, therefore, hated & feared by private broadcasters. It is their contention that the radio industry already provides ample technical and artistic facilities for South American...
Therefore, with the Celler Bill hearings about to open in Washington this week, the QRX signal to stand by hummed through the U. S. radio industry. A more important fight than was ever put on the air-the match between the two great opposing philosophies of broadcasting- was about to begin. In this corner-the legislators and Government officials who look on radio as too vast and permeating a moral instrument to be left ungoverned by the body politic, too valuable a natural resource to be left free from State control. In that corner-the private broadcasters who have...
What the radio industry will be chiefly tuned in for during the next couple of weeks is what Mr. McNinch says, if and when, as head of the President's interdepartmental Committee on Pan American broadcasting, he turns thumbs up or down on the Celler Bill's Government station. Since he has not pressed the radio time rate inquiry, and since he is not willing to make accusations against a radio monopoly until one is proved, there is a likelihood that Mr. McNinch will at any rate oppose the bill's domestic broadcasting provision. Hopefully the industry...
...best-known and most respected small-town newspaperman in the U. S. Three weeks ago 70-year-old Editor White was elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, thus becoming a more or less official spokesman for U. S. journalism. Last week, on his way home, Bill White showed that this new honor had not changed his old habit. Addressing the students at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce, the Sage of Emporia blurted...