Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsman. Llewellyn White, 46, had worked for the Paris Herald, the Literary Digest, Newsweek and the Chicago Sun. Fortnight ago he went to London to join UNESCO's staff. The other, Dr. Robert D. Leigh,. 55, was a progressive-education specialist, founding president of Bennington College, director of FCC's foreign broadcast intelligence service for two wartime years. Their major proposals...
...interested spectator of these, and 14 similar transactions, was the Securities & Exchange Commission's chief watchdog, James Aloysius Treanor Jr., a husky, hardworking lawyer who caught the eye of SEC by the way he had run an FCC investigation of the telephone system. He joined SEC as a lawyer, succeeded Ganson Purcell (now head of SEC) as director of the Trading & Exchange division in 1941. A soft talker, who used SEC's big stick sparingly, he has been watching new issues...
Like any competent physician, British-born Charles Siepmann, former BBC director, Harvard lecturer and FCC consultant, began with a documented case history of his patient. For many a suffering listener, it was the best analysis yet of radio's excesses...
...through competition alone. To merit this second chance, says he, radio should try some voluntary reforms. Then Siepmann suggests a potion of his own concocting: a national listeners' advisory council representing the U.S. audience. Its job: minding radio's manners, reporting the industry's shortcomings to FCC...
...promised benefits of the merger with Postal Telegraph two and a half years ago, such as rate reductions, had been wiped out. If FCC grants the company's plea, telegraph rates will go up for the first time since...