Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under White House and congressional pressure, Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack resigned last week for his part in the FCC award of Miami's Channel 10 last year to a National Airlines television subsidiary (TIME, March 10). Mack insisted that his conscience was clear about his vote for National and the loans and gifts he accepted from Old Friend Thurman Whiteside. (In two years on the FCC, Government investigators reported, Mack received $35,000 in salary and $41,000 from outside sources.) But Dwight Eisenhower stiffly told him: "You are wise to tender your resignation...
...protest that Mack was "being broken, crucified and . . . sent home in disgrace." But "more guilty," insisted Baker, were Florida's Democratic Senators George Smathers and Spessard Holland, together with Tennessee's Estes Kefauver. Their crime, to Baker's mind: pressuring the FCC for a rival Channel 10 applicant while the case was under consideration. Snapped Baker: "Holland, Smathers and Kefauver ought to resign, just as Commissioner Mack has, and for the same reason . . . Their halos have slipped...
...Canadian border, has gone through 789 exhibits and 21,091 pages of testimony, at a cost of $1,500,000 to the Government and companies without reaching a decision. ¶| The Federal Communications Com mission has been listening to the arguments of seven applicants for a Toledo TV channel since 1952, with no end in sight. Says an FCC official: "We'd do just as well to draw a name from...
...Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, licked his dry lips, and said: "I want to apologize that I may seem a little nervous this morning." Democrat Mack had plenty to be nervous about: he was accused of accepting money and other favors for his vote to grant Miami's Channel 10 television franchise to a National Airlines subsidiary. The House subcommittee let Mack read a 4,000-word statement, handled him gently for a while, then cuffed him sharply-and weak Richie Mack left the hearing room a badly shaken...
Witness Mack started his testimony last week bravely enough. Said he: "I assert categorically'that my relations with Mr. Whiteside, going back over many years, had nothing whatsoever to do with my vote in the Miami Channel 10 case. I at no time, directly or indirectly, pledged my vote to Thurman Whiteside, to Public Service Television, Inc. [the National Airlines subsidiary], or to any of the other three applicants in that proceeding." Even without his vote, he noted, there was an FCC majority for National: "Public Service would have won even had I not voted...