Word: mcninch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broadcaster every six months. Last year, with Republican Senator White of Maine and others baying that a sharp political odor was arising from the FCC, President Roosevelt-to whom radio means a lot-sent over his acute and large-eared little trouble shooter, 65-year-old Frank Ramsay McNinch, to be the Commission's chairman...
...McNinch, The 1912 Radio Communication Act antedates the birth of broadcasting. The license plan adopted at that time was a system of registry for the three radio groups then active: the Navy, private companies engaged in ship communications and the small group of early-bird amateurs. Anybody who applied got a license. Its issuance was part of the job of the Secretary of Commerce, a very small part until 1920 when KDKA (Pittsburgh) applied for the first wireless telephone broadcasting station license. The Secretary granted it a wave length of 360 meters, continued issuing other stations licenses on the same...
...States may not tax Federal employes' salaries or income from State or Federal securities. Last week he did so. ¶ Major White House visitors of the week: Union Pacific's William Averell Harriman, who discussed a Business Advisory Council meeting at Sun Valley, Idaho; Chairman Frank R. McNinch of the FCC, to discuss the Commission's investigation to ascertain whether radio broadcasting is a monopoly; Idaho's Senator William Borah, to discuss his bill to enforce anti-trust laws through Federal licensing of corporations. ¶ Presidential plans: a ten-day fishing trip starting this week...
Reason for Mr. Paley's perturbation was that the Federal Communications Commission (chairman: Frank McNinch, Franklin Roosevelt's "Trouble Shooter") began last week the investigation of radio which broadcasters have expected ever since Mae West's "script tease" in December. In charge of a committee to look into charges of monopoly was Paul Walker, a man whose name few people knew before he presented a report on American Tel. & Tel. last fortnight...
...biggest. For the last few years RCA meetings have been furious affairs, with abuse, denunciation and a certain amount of gloomy prophesying. But last autumn RCA declared its first common stock dividend, and last week Mr. Sarnoff's stockholders confined themselves to asking how about Frank McNinch and Paul Walker. Said Mr. Sarnoff: "We have nothing to conceal, nothing to hide...