Word: hennock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard A. Mack, 45, to be a member of the Federal Communications Commission, succeeding hardbitten, brass-voiced Frieda Hennock, 50. Lawyer Hennock, a breezy, New Dealing Democrat (but no darling of the party's congressional rank and file), was the first woman to serve on the FCC, was often a center of controversy in her seven years in office. Floridian Mack, a Democrat of calmer persuasion, is former chairman of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, a current vice president of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, and an experienced practitioner before...
...most part, the showing was a success. FCC was "impressed." Said Chairman Rosel H. Hyde: "It is not unreasonable to expect that the commission will approve compatible color TV standards by Christmas." Commented FCC Commissioner Frieda Hennock: "Color doesn't make you look as fat as black and white...
...Houston last week, FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock kicked off her shoes for comfort and threw away her prepared speech for greater freedom of expression. Speaking on a subject dear to her heart, she was helping to dedicate station KUHT, the first noncommercial education TV station in the U.S. Commissioner Hennock rejoiced that, after 3½ years of work, "we're showing the scoffers, we're showing the world" that "education must have its own stations. You cannot mix free education with the profit motive...
...October, 1950, the F.C.C., faced with Miss Hennock's needling, and a growing support of her plans, had changed its tune. It again started consideration of allocations questions and as an outgrowth of a meeting of prominent national educators at that time the Joint Committee on Educational Television was formed. This committee, composed of members from such organizations as the National Association of Land Grant Colleges, has since agitated for 10 percent of available channels: its demands seem certain to be met this month...
Even though Miss Freida Hennock, contacted in Washington, remarked to the CRIMSON: "You've got a lot of money at Harvard. Why don't you get busy and apply for your own station?", the University itself, according to Bailey, is better off as a member of the Lowell Institute. Less money is necessary and more recourses are available...