Word: commissioner
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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...
Chairman McNinch comes from Charlotte, N. C., a thriving city of which he was twice mayor. A small but fearless Presbyterian Elder, in 1918 he armed a number of citizens as special police officers during a bloody streetcar strike, survived a recall vote that followed the disorders and picked up...
...Keep Democratic!" Within the first few months of his FCC chairmanship, Mr. McNinch served notice on lobbyists that their visits and pleadings to Commissioners would receive the fullest publicity. He brought the Commission up to date on its hearings, eliminated departmental divisions, which caused the dismissal of a friend of Jim Farley, a relative of Justice Black and the nephew of Sam Rayburn. The little man, it was agreed, had lots of political nerve...
For months, after A. F. of L. organizer Robert H. Everitt had petitioned to the commission to dismember the inside union on the grounds that it was a "company dominated" organization, negotiations dragged on and State offices rang with threats and charges from the rival parties.
Many things happen on the Charles when Harvard goes a rowing in the Spring. With the number of rowing fans still growing to enormous proportions; it is rumored that Weld Boat House has established a commission to measure the amount of crabs caught during the season. Overturned wherries and singles...