Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blanket agreements have been a major factor in the networks' difficulties with ASCAP, it looked at week's end as if the Department of Justice might spike a major ASCAP gun. Meanwhile the society and the networks continued brawling bitterly. Still ignored by both the battlers was FCC, oft cited as a possible arbitrator for the feud. Said a spokesman for the Commission : "We look at it more or less this way : It's just a quarrel between two business men over dividing up the swag...
...Barkley, "what its passage will do to all the agencies of the Government. . . . The more one discusses it, the less he understands it." Brighter Senators than Alben Barkley agreed, wearily passed (27-to-25) a measure which could subject any act, rule, decision of such agencies as NLRB, SEC, FCC, TVA and many others to court review...
Equipped with sensitive long-range direction finders, FCC's monitors undertake by triangulation to locate the general area in which any bootleg sender-on land, sea or air - is functioning. The inspectors from the secondary stations set out in innocent-looking sedans, fitted with receivers, recorders, direction finders and an FM transmitter with which to talk to one another. Favorite parking place sought by the mobile units is a cemetery, where there are no lights, telephones or overhead wires to interfere with monitoring work. Often field inspectors sleuth around for days before they root out the ethereal blind...
Within the past year, FCC monitors have caught over 300 unlicensed stations. Although in the course of tracking down renegade operators FCC's monitor men meet espionage, sabotage and other subversive carryings-on, the only law the monitors can enforce (with the cooperation of local police) is the Communications Act. Incidental findings are turned over to FBI or to the Army or Navy Intelligence. Taciturn about their activities, the ether police talk for publication only about their wild-goose chases, most of which are started by hams, an extremely vigilant and patriotic...
Head of the National Defense Operations Section of FCC's monitoring division is George E. Sterling, who helped organize the first radio intelligence unit of the Army in World War I, served as an inspector for the Department of Commerce before FCC took over radio. An inveterate ham, Sterling works in a welter of receivers, transmitters, microphones, recording devices. Temperate in his attitude about radio defense, he is inclined to be lenient with accidental shortcomings of his fellow enthusiasts, doesn't crack down unless violations are flagrant...