Word: lohr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the U. S. by a sexy burlesque of the story of Adam & Eve (TIME, Dec. 27).* Among the 1,000-odd letters of criticism that showered on National Broadcasting Co. was one from FCC asking for a transcript of the program. Last week NBC President Lenox R. Lohr got another letter from FCC, signed by Chairman Frank McNinch. Taking time out from such radio supervising jobs as dividing up the ether, allotting slices of it to broadcasting stations and licensing operators, Mr. McNinch sounded off on Mae West...
Soft orchestra music filled the rest of the 15 minutes for which Groves Bromo Quinine (for colds) had hired General Johnson to radiorate. General Johnson proceeded to a grill room on the 65th floor of the broadcasting building and heard NBC's president, Major Lenox Riley Lohr explain why General Johnson's brand of plain speaking was, at least on the subject of social disease, a little too forthright for radio consumption...
What NBC's President Lenox Lohr wanted was "imaginative and efficient guidance" in a field which stands as much in need of an organizing genius as did the cinema industry when it hired Will Hays 15 years ago. Educators have long been unsatisfied with the radio as an educational medium. Two years ago they gave the industry a scare by plumping in great numbers for the unsuccessful Fess and Wagner-Hatfield bills calling for a Federal allocation of wave bands for educational purposes. This year NBC is devoting a record total of 4,360 hours, 44% of the network...
President Lenox R. Lohr of National Broadcasting: "To accept such dramatic programs as you have offered would place the discussion of vital political and national issues on the basis of dramatic license rather than upon a basis of responsibility for stated fact or opinion...
...president is Lenox Rile Lohr, whose 44 years have been devote more to war and engineering than to radio A Major in the AEF, he was cited for meritorious service in action, afterward served as executive secretary of the Society of American Military Engineers. He is best known as general manager of Chicago's Century of Progress fair...