Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacked dance-band programs piped into the studios from outside and then broadcast. They argued that musicians on such programs were doing two jobs for the price of one, demanded a fee ($3 per man per broadcast on network stations, less on local stations) to be paid for remote control band broadcasts into the union's unemployment fund. After a battle, the union...
Last week the Pittsburgh Musical Society ordered its members to cease playing remote control dance broadcasts for the five Pittsburgh radio stations, informed broadcasters that remotes would be permitted on payment into the union's unemployment fund of full union wage for each man before each broadcast. This fee would approximate $10 per man per broadcast. Pittsburgh stations responded by picking up out-of-town bands. Co-signer with local union officers of the Pittsburgh notice was Music Federation National President Joseph N. Weber. Union President Weber left Pittsburgh the day the union served the notice. At week...
...Lemmon is no radio newcomer. He was Presidential staff radio officer on the George Washington when it took Woodrow Wilson to the Peace Conference, devised a pioneer ship-to-shore telephone service for that trip, made a fortune from his patent on single-dial radio control and twenty-odd other radio inventions. Also a broadcaster, he is founder president of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation which owns and operates non-profit shortwave Station WIXAL (Boston), dips into his own pocket to broadcast New England enlight enment to the world...
...Louis, joined the liberal group of Paul V. Shields. Edward Allen Pierce and John W. Hanes soon after he bought an Exchange seat in 1931, has since lived quietly at Manhattan's Yale Club, studied steadily at the New School for Social Research. When the reform group gained control of the reorganized Exchange this spring. Bill Martin was elected chairman of the board of governors (TIME, May 23). He immediately won a friendly press, made a hit with SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. After considering some 200 "big names," the board of governors came to the conclusion that...
...dividends on United's preferred stock based on the portfolio as revalued by the state of the market last December 31. But President Howard admitted that if stock-holders agreed, the way would then be cleared for sale of enough of United's holdings to reduce its control of any affiliate to less than 10%.* This would automatically change it by the terms of the Public Utility Act from a holding company to an investment trust and SEC no longer could rule its investment policy...