Word: celler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight, so suddenly did it wilt last week. Biggest reason was that FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch, unwilling at this time to go on record for or against, withheld the sunshine of his Interdepartmental Committee report on international broadcasting. With the most authoritative witness out of the picture, the Celler Bill hearings were postponed indefinitely. A similar end was expected by Senator Dennis Chavez to the hearings on his Chavez-McAdoo Bill, which, like the Celler Bill, would authorize the Government to send anti-Fascist propaganda to South America over its own station...
...other consideration dampened Congressional ardor for legislation like the Celler Bill. N. A. B.'s President Mark Foster Ethridge acutely observed that the State Department would find it easier to explain embarrassing statements on international broadcasts if private broadcasters made them than if they were aired over a Government-owned-&-operated station...
Like frogs in spring, last week, no sooner had Representative Emanuel Celler been given a chance to croak for his Government Broadcasting Bill (TIME, May 16) than the whole Congressional swamp sang out for radio legislation. As soon as Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced War, Navy and Interior Department endorsement for the Celler Bill, indicated that plans for a Government station to combat Fascist propaganda in South America had White House backing, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman and Senator William E. Borah added their endorsements...
...with hearings on the Celler Bill scheduled for this week, Senator Bone's Interstate Commerce subcommittee beat the lower house to the punch by opening rival hearings on the Chavez-McAdoo Government Station Bill. The proposal is similar to the Celler Bill, except that it places the station in San Diego, Calif.; jumps Representative Celler's $700,000 construction and $50,000 maintenance ante to $3,000,000 and $100,000; omits specific provisions for domestic broadcasting; gives the Secretary of State responsibility for programs...
Naval Lieutenant Commander Jennings Bryan Dow scored heavily for the Celler Bill's proposed Washington location when he testified that transmission of Washing ton programs to San Diego for Pan-American broadcasting would add $600,000 annual line charges to operating costs...