Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of this anti-Judkins feeling is FCCommissioner Clifford Judkins Durr. He fathered the recent FCC report on radio's behavior (TIME, March 18), insisting that radio's business was FCC's business. He has continually demanded better programming-more public service, fewer commercials-and opposed the purchase of stations by corporations with no knowledge of radio. He dissents so often from his fellow commissioners' decisions that it is big news when he votes...
...Justice Hugo Black's sister-in-law. Some time after joining RFC's legal division, he tied with a colleague in a stenographers' vote for the "biggest hayseed" on the staff. He was a director of the Defense Plant Corp. when Franklin Roosevelt named him to FCC in October 1941, soon became the listening audience's champion in Washington...
...many another employer whose labor costs have gone up, Western Union Telegraph Co. sought relief in higher prices (TIME, April 1). Last week the Federal Communications Commission gave Western Union what it wanted: a 10% overall rate increase, and the elimination of special cheap message services. The increase, said FCC, was an "emergency measure" for one year to keep Western Union from operating at a deficit of $1,000,000 a month, caused chiefly by a 21% increase in wages. Despite the emergency, FCC refused to let Western Union do away with the 20% discount it now gives...
...have become incensed of late at the way TIME has gleefully pounced upon the FCC "public service" pronunciamento in order to deliver a weekly lambasting to commercial radio...
...continued to promote its enthusiastic plans for color. Result: at least one manufacturer (Zenith) stopped plans for black-&-white receivers; at least a score of television-station applications were withdrawn from FCC...