Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the trial will be judged only on the ability of the student lawyers, the issues at stake, embodied in the fictitious case of Columbia Broadcasting System vs. Federal Communications Commission are real ones. Questioning the legality of the FCC's new broad-casting regulations, they have real counterparts in a recent suit before a United States Court, and are now being appealed to the Supreme Court itself...
Hope rose last week in the breasts of NBC and CBS men who want FCC's dread regulations of the network business (TIME, Jan. 12) never to go into effect. A New York Federal Court, to which they had applied for an injunction against FCC, first shook the networks with a faintly acidulous refusal to take the case (on the ground that they were hollering before they were hurt). Then the court granted a stay on the regulations until May 1-by which time the U.S. Supreme Court will either hear the networks' appeals or the whole thing...
Many a House committee witness testified on the un-Americanism of Dies' study of un-Americanism. One well-noted point: in Axis propaganda broadcasts, according to FCC listeners, Martin Dies was one of the most-praised of all Americans...
...faced Martin Dies demanded an explanation. FCC's Chairman Fly, a favorite Dies target, replied: "Representative Dies . . . received as many favorable references in Axis propa ganda to this country ... as any living American public figure. His opinions were quoted by the Axis without criticism at any time. . . . The remarkable thing . . . is that Congressman Dies should be presented to Americans by Nazi and Fascist propagandists as an authority whose opinions should be heeded." Scarcely had this deft needle slipped in when up rose Massachusetts' young Thomas H. Eliot, to deliver the sharpest attack on Dies the House ever heard...
This was what the Tokyo radio on Jan. 18 sent out, in Japanese, for the gratification of Jap listeners in the Southwest Pacific. Although not beamed eastward, it was picked up and translated by attentive FCC monitors on the U.S. Pacific Coast...