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...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...
...been around so long that they were now more or less familiar. Anyone who didn't know these initials was out of luck. And knowing them now was no good: most had been superseded by weird new wartime initials. For instance: FCC is less important than DCB (Defense Communications Board), and NLRB plays second fiddle to NWLB (National War Labor Board...
...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...
...well as raising the question of whether the networks have acted as monopolies and suppressed competition, the legal battle between the networks and the FCC has brought up the whole matter of judicial review in cases of administrative regulations...
Representing the Columbia Broadcasting System, the James Club will have as its speakers Bernard Lisman of Burlington, Vermont, and Edward A. Smith of Worcester. Opposing them in behalf of the FCC will be James A. Doherty of LaCanada, California, and Donald MacDonald of Omaha, Nebraska of the Powell Club...