Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington loves a fight more than the Federal Communications Commission's sorrel-topped, razor-tongued chairman, James Lawrence Fly. This week, having easily won Senate confirmation of his reappointment to FCC, Chairman Fly could look forward happily to another seven years of hard work and hard fights...
...Embassy in Vichy last week sent French authorities a prim reminder: that under international agreement French stations are allocated the initial call letter "F," U.S. stations "W" and "K." The occasion of the reminder was the discovery by FCC that a pseudo-American station, WFAC, picked up occasionally in the U.S., is actually broadcasting its Axis propaganda from somewhere in Unoccupied France...
...Police Chief Harry M. Niles threatened to file a complaint with FCC...
...ionized upper stratum of atmosphere) to make Midwesterners wonder whether they harbored a disloyal station. "Station D-E-B-U-N-K," when picked up around Chicago on the earthward bounce, was heard referring to European stations as "over there" and urging folks to "fight the dictatorship . . . in Washington." FCC triangulations located it in western Europe...
...week, when he arrived at Camp Haan, the M.P.s threw him in the guardhouse. At Camp Roberts a distraught recruit whose girl in the Midwest had just returned his engagement ring asked Hope to say a word to her in his broadcast. Hope explained that that was against the FCC rules; but after the show he looked up the jilted soldier and put in a telephone call for him. With half the camp hanging around, Hope kidded the girl until she was so delirious she not only made up to her boy friend but apologized for sending back the ring...