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Sixty-two broadcasting clergymen, paced by Manhattan's Harry Emerson Fosdick, last week denounced FCC's antimonopoly rulings against the radio chains, put God squarely on the networks' side. Wrote they to Franklin Roosevelt...
This word from the Cloth came opportunely for the chains, belabored by attacks by FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly made in current hearings before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In response to FCC's charges, the networks have assembled a battery of high-priced lobbyists, and rallied women's clubs and educators to their defense on the ground that a threat to them is a threat to their unsponsored cultural features. CBS has even printed 800,000 copies of a defensive "White Paper...
...line-up at the hearings is somewhat confusing. Supporting FCC are Senators Wheeler and Tobey, who have no use for Franklin Roosevelt; opposing it is Senator White, a Roosevelt supporter on foreign policy, who wrote the resolution calling for an investigation of the Commission's rulings. Firm in its support of FCC is the No. 3 network, Mutual, which numbers among its big shots hard-bitten Bertie McCormick and his anti-Administration Chicago Tribune...
...incidental comments during hearings to date, the networks as yet have not presented their full-dress defense. Mark Ethridge, onetime head of the National Association of Broadcasters, vice president and general manager of the New Dealish Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, who was expected to produce damaging evidence against FCC, was "reluctant to go into cases." When Bill Paley took the stand only three members of the 21-man Senatorial committee were around to hear his remarks...
Preliminary investigations of the talent bureaus by the Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice are also believed to have inspired the two networks' scurry from under. Rumored next step to be taken by NBC and CBS towards placating antimonopolistic FCC: the sale of their transcription libraries...