Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly as the Congressional urge to put the Government in the radio business blossomed last fortnight, so suddenly did it wilt last week. Biggest reason was that FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch, unwilling at this time to go on record for or against, withheld the sunshine of his Interdepartmental Committee report on international broadcasting. With the most authoritative witness out of the picture, the Celler Bill hearings were postponed indefinitely. A similar end was expected by Senator Dennis Chavez to the hearings on his Chavez-McAdoo Bill, which, like the Celler Bill, would authorize the Government to send anti-Fascist...
...staff walked out and published an opposition paper called the Staff Daily. Some 2,500 students signed an unsuccessful petition for a referendum to recall the board of control. And last week white-haired, conservative Dean George Clarke Sellery, who was Wisconsin's interim acting president after Glenn Frank's ouster last year, pushed the university into the national limelight again by charging that racial bigotry had reared its head on Wisconsin's campus. Said he: "When an effort to put [the Cardinal] into the hands of a different group for next year is supported...
...Landon of Topeka, Kans., and Col, Frank Knox of Chicago, guests at Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, paid a 15-minute call on fellow guest Herbert Hoover...
Following week Sherman Minton undertook another form of press-baiting. To appear before his lobby committee, he summoned Maurice Vallee Reynolds, publisher of Rural Progress, a farm monthly edited by Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republican Party's Program Committee. Based on the throw-away theory that the meagre income from cheap paid circulation is not worth the money and effort involved in getting it, the 20-odd-page, tabloid-size Rural Progress is mailed free to some 2,000,000 country homes in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Theoretically it depends for its income...
Prevented from defending his magazine before the committee. Editor Frank was told to "sit down" while Senator Minton called his magazine "sugarcoated propaganda." Rural Progress' readers, the Senator later declared over the radio, would never have accepted the magazine had they known that "these rich people, opposed to the President, were putting up the bank roll...