Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Franklin Roosevelt plucked pitcher-eared little Frank Ramsay McNinch from the Federal Power Commission to make him chairman of the turbulent Federal Communications Commission. McNinch's assignment was a clean-up job supposed to last about three months. Under Cleaner-Upper McNinch, FCC has been more turbulent than ever. FCC Commissioners were at odds on its investigations into superpower and radio rates, practically disavowed Commissioner Walker's drastic 1,100 page report on American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Capping the thunder-headed cumulus was Chairman McNinch's unrelenting war on two fellow-Commissioners, publicity-hunting George...
This year Chairman McNinch dragged FCC's brawls into Congress with a reorganization bill that would let him eliminate Commissioners Payne and Craven, remove many lesser FCC jobs from civil service. But neither Frank McNinch nor his Chief is so popular with Congress as he once was, and the FCC reorganization bill was shelved...
...lacking in courage, and no one questions his sincerity, though many in radio have not seen eye to eye with him on the majority of his proposed 'reforms.' But ... his selection of William J. Dempsey as general counsel has proved a boon to the efficiency of the FCC...
Before the radio industry had time to cross its fingers over the President's intentions, he acted. Once more Franklin Roosevelt went outside FCC to pick a chairman. Like Frank McNinch, 41-year-old James Lawrence Fly made his name with the New Deal program. TVA's general counsel since 1937, able Jim Fly won TVA's two major tilts in the Supreme Court. A tall, quiet, hard-working Texan who graduated from Annapolis and spent three years in the Navy before loping through Harvard Law School in two years, Lawyer Fly is a New Dealer...
Advertising ethics, on which most big broadcasters and FCC already see eye to eye, N. A. B. attended to by formally expressing radio's informal Index expurga-torius on such subjects as hard liquor, "products claiming to cure," deceptive claims, overlong or otherwise objectionable commercials...