Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surface, at least, Andrew Russell ("Drew") Pearson and Robert Sharon ("Bob") Allen were a team again. A few months ago the two Merry-Go-Roundmen were not speaking, but last week they joined to ask FCC to jerk a radio license from Hearst and give it to them. Neither would discuss their old feud or their new venture. Said redheaded, cavalry-cussing Colonel Allen: "Allen's relations with Pearson are strictly Allen's business . . . and he won't talk...
Just how W.U. will be able to pay the boost, if it goes through, and yet stay in the black, was not clear. In granting the last rate hike, FCC said that it would not make any more. Even if it did, the boost would give Western Union more telephone and air mail competition and result in a decrease in revenue...
Organized religion in the United States has never, in this present century, been so powerful; and this power it has acquired almost solely because of its virtually unopposed use of American radio stations and networks during the last 15 years and more. The July 19 ruling of the FCC was designed to put an end to this highly dangerous misuse of radio...
...FCC strains at such gnats as "hell" and "damn" but is willing to swallow the camel of antireligion. The only trouble with religion in Russia is that the Russian constitution permits freedom of religion, but in the same breath guarantees freedom of antireligion. . . . Atheists should have no more freedom in the sale of their wares than dope peddlers, and for the same reason...
This week's issue of the Methodist Zions Herald applauded: "The FCC has done a profound service to freedom of religion. . . . One of the basic rights that must not be disturbed is the right to achieve for oneself a satisfactory conception of God. To safeguard that right, the church must recognize and defend the right of an individual to disbelieve either in partner completely...