Word: commissioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the ghostlike, empty village of Vronderon, near the Albanian border, one Lazanis Nestoridis, a private in the government army, pinned up a penciled notice on the front door of a two-story stone house. It read: "Friends, please do not remove the few remaining articles from this house. It...
New Techniques. This week, the Workshop wound up its fourth annual month-long session in Chicago. Along with smaller subsidiary workshops held throughout the country, it is the answer of the Protestant Radio Commission to the problem of putting radio to work for religion. Through the workshops have gone the...
New Ideas. Co-chairman of the Workshop with Snyder, and a recognized leader in the field of religious radio, is energetic, balding Everett C. Parker, 36. He was working for a radio station in Chicago when a Methodist minister asked him to help get a sponsor for a religious show...
In Washington, the Federal Communications Commission threw its Sunday punch at radio's gaudy giveaway shows which have been showering the U.S. with more than $185,000 in prizes every week (and thereby holding an audience estimated at over 30 million). After a year's study, FCC voted...
Portly Justin Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, took no stand on the merit of giveaways but wondered "whether the commission has any authority to promulgate any rules." His wonder was shared by FCCommissioner Frieda B. Hennock. In her dissenting vote, Miss Hennock maintained that "without a specific...