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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...
Fights & Foes. Fly's most immediate fight is in Congress against the Sanders Bill, which proposes sweeping changes in the communications act, one of which would split FCC into two divisions and strip the chairman of much of his authority. His major opponents are CBS and NBC, which consider Fly prejudiced and think he wants to reform them out of business; the National Association of Broadcasters, which Fly has delighted to compare to John Randolph's dead mackerel in the moonlight ("It shines and stinks"), and newspaper owners, whom Fly is frankly trying to keep...
That Larry Fly has opposition even in his own camp was shown when Commissioner T. A. M. Craven followed him as a witness before the House committee. Craven praised the radio networks, expressed the view that newspapers should be allowed to operate stations, and described FCC's present plan of organization as "basically unsound...
...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...