Word: flamme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FLAMM...
After a turn in Government jobs-chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, Under Secretary of Commerce-Ed Noble bought New York's station WMCA for $850,000. With it he acquired a lawsuit by ex-Owner Donald Flamm, who charged that Noble had coerced him into selling cheaply, for fear FCC would take away his wavelength. Flamm won another $350,000 in court. But Noble still liked radio. So after FCC ordered NBC to divest itself of either the Red or Blue network, Ed Noble paid $8,000,000 for the Blue, the biggest deal in radio history...
IRVING H. FLAMM Chicago...
...last newspaper berth was with the New York Tribune, for which he once wrote Children of the Crucible, an account of life on Manhattan's East Side. Invited in 1932 to debate Socialism with Norman Thomas in the pages of The Nation, Heatter so fascinated Radioman Donald Flamm with his ideas that he was eventually signed up as a WMCA news commentator at $35 a week, later moved on to MBS. Today he takes in some $130,000 a year from the WOR Artists Bureau which handles...
...Commissioner Brown. He faced unexpected opposition. New Hampshire's blatant Senator Tobey ignored his party line to belabor a fellow Republican. Equipped with a portfolio crammed with documents, Tobey bellowed a demand for facts concerning a "wild party" given in New York by WMCA's President Donald Flamm, and attended by Brown. When Brown refused to discuss the affair, Tobey leered and boomed: "And is it true that one of the men at the party ran his hand up a woman's leg?" Later on Brown privately revealed that Flamm was a friend of long standing, that...