Word: fcc
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Although Federal Communications Commission Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch thinks purge is a nasty word, last week he persuaded his commission to oust three more FCC staff men, bringing his purge score to seven. By abolishing FCC's examining division, incorporating the examiners in the legal division under McNinch's right-hand man. General Counsel William James Dempsey, FCC sidestepped civil service statutes and fired Chief Examiner Davis G. Arnold, Examiner Melvin H. Dalberg. Similar action ousted Publicity Man G. Franklin Wisner. But FCC will not be without a pressagent. Marion Livingston Ramsay was borrowed for 90 days from...
Loudest squawk came from Examiner Arnold, who before his ouster had been offered a $5,000 Veterans' Administration job in exchange for his $7,000 FCC post. When he refused, he said, Chairman McNinch told him that "in these days that's a pretty good salary for a Republican...
From the guardian geese around the citadel of classical music there arose last week an anguished honking. An 81-year-old stockbroker named Alfred Lewis Dennis, member of Newark's venerable Bach Choral Society, wrote a long letter, hissing with protest, to FCC Chairman Frank R. McNinch. Its painful burden: the swinging of classical music...
...week's end FCC was flooded with indignant protests against Mr. Welles and CBS. In Germany the newspapers treated the unconscious hoax as a war scare. In the U. S. the press, no friend to radio, treated it as a public outrage. In London, Author Wells was a little shirty, too. He said: "It was implicit in the agreement that it was to be used as fiction and not news. I gave no permission whatever for alterations that might lead to belief that it was real news...
...stations owned by Publisher Hearst, within the last six months KEHE (Los Angeles), KTSA (San Antonio), WACO (Waco), KNOW (Austin), WINS (Manhattan) have been sold, subject to FCC approval. KYA (San Francisco), KOMA (Oklahoma City), WISN (Milwaukee) are reported for sale. Remaining Hearst stations are WCAE (Pittsburgh), WBAL (Baltimore...