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...which still had a year to run, signed a new one for five years upping his salary to a reported $40,000 a year, highest current in the major leagues. One day last week Manager Charles Dressen of the Cincinnati Reds quietly walked into the office of Owner Powel Crosley Jr., quietly walked out again without any contract at all. It was no coincidence that the Giants had just slipped into first place in the National League and the Reds had just slumped into last place. With both major leagues entering the home stretch of their pennant races and fans...
Boiling up menacingly was the year-old feud between one of the Commission's three Republican members, New York's George Henry Payne, and Cincinnati Radioman Powel Crosley Jr. over the 500,000-watt experimental permit granted three and a half years ago by the Commission to Crosley-operated WLW. Last year Commissioner Payne, although he is technically assigned to the Commissioner's telegraph division, wrote Mr. Crosley asking whether WLW was not taking advantage of its "experimental" status as the most powerful broadcaster in the U. S. to reap unusual commercial profits, and demanding a balance...
...last month two things happened at once. The F. C. C. extended WLW's experimental strength for another six months and Powel Crosley announced the appointment of a new $10,400-a-year publicity adviser. He was Charles Michelson, still working for the Democratic National Committee at $25,000 a year...
Just before the new appointments were announced last week, Commissioner Payne gave newspapers a sizzling letter he had just dispatched to Powel Crosley. Excerpts...
...arrows rebounded. Observers could envisage what scorn Charley would have called up if, in 1931, he had caught a Republican in his own shoes, for Charley had just announced that, while retaining his inside Democratic post, he was accepting a $200-a-week contract as publicity "adviser" to the Crosley Radio Corporation. The contract stipulates that he shall not appear before any Government Commission...