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...attack except Canada; the key to Canada was the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes line of water communications. Hoisting his large blue battle flag with the white letters DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry outsailed and outgunned the British on Erie. On Champlain Captain Thomas MacDonough anchored his ships in such an advantageous position that when the British tried to attack him, he put them to rout without even moving. These two engagements gave the U.S. the necessary naval superiority on the lakes and won the war. U.S. casualties: 79 killed, 154 wounded...
Roars. What burned up the broadcasting industry as much as anything was the manner in which FCC let fly. Dissenting Commissioner Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, home sick in bed, had been assured nothing would happen till he got back. The report appeared on the day of the Kentucky Derby. Neville Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, and NBC President Niles Trammell got the nasty news at Churchill Downs. CBS President William S. Paley was weekending on Long Island...
...week's end, FCC came in for a spanking itself. This time the paddle was wielded by one of its own members, Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, only radio engineer on the commission. In a letter to Minnesota's Senator Lundeen, Engineer Craven (who dissented from the cancellation order) labeled the reasoning of his colleagues "absurd on its face." "Nothing can stop scientific research and technical progress in a free democracy," wrote he, "if incentive is not discouraged by government. ... In my opinion, the technique of television has advanced to the stage where an initial public trial is entirely...
...superpower and radio rates, practically disavowed Commissioner Walker's drastic 1,100 page report on American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Capping the thunder-headed cumulus was Chairman McNinch's unrelenting war on two fellow-Commissioners, publicity-hunting George Henry Payne and the Navy's Commander Tunis Augustus MacDonough Craven, the Commission's only technical...
Upped to the membership vacated by the retirement of Republican Irvin Stewart for a full seven-year term was Commander Tunis Augustus MacDonough Craven, a 44-year-old Annapolis graduate who has been the Commission's Chief Engineer for two years. To replace Chairman Anning S. Prall, who died last July, the President temporarily transferred Frank Ramsay McNinch from the chairmanship of the Federal Power Commission. Able, sharp-faced Mr. McNinch, 64, twice mayor of Charlotte, N. C., is a close adviser of the President on power questions. He promptly announced that he knew nothing about...