Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Having obtained confirmation of three controversial characters in highest appointive posts (Frankfurter, Murphy, Hopkins), Franklin Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate a still hotter appointment: Thomas R. Amlie, Wisconsin radical Progressive, to be a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission (see col. 2).
Last week Wholesaler Judson was summoned to Washington to testify before the Federal Communications Commission ' about the way he ran his business. For five hours, Judson squirmed and squinted through the cigar smoke and a rain of questions. When the air was clear again, spectators had learned that U...
Like its only big competitor, NBC Artists Service, Judson's Columbia Concerts Corp. has a stooge set-up which tends to small-town business. This stooge is known as Community Concerts. Columbia Concerts Corp. sells some of its wares to radio chains and sponsors, symphony orchestras and local independent...
How widely and cordially these broadcasts are received in Germany was evident last week in a fanmail file prepared by NBC's International Division for the Federal Communications Commission. Of about 2,000 letters and postcards received by NBC each month from 82 foreign points, 300 to 400 are...
Just before Christmas the U. S. Maritime Commission freighter City of Dalhart hove to off Pitcairn. Out rowed a Pitcairner with two gift parcels, one for Mrs. Hall, the other for DeGhett. On the way home the City of Delhart's Radio Operator Scruggs kept trying at odd times...