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...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...
...three years' investigation. They would still be the Commission's secret had not the Commission learned that communication circles had somehow "tapped its wires." Rather than give A. T. & T. a chance to prepare a counterpunch while FCC studied the report, lively little Chairman Frank R. McNinch decided to make Commissioner Walker's findings public at once. But he specifically told Congress that it "is not a report by the Commission, but is instead a report submitted to the Commission and is now being studied by the members of the Commission with a view to subsequent determination...
...months ago Frank McNinch of the Federal Communications Commission suggested that he might soon start to investigate radio. Last week, as embarrassingly intimate questionnaires on financial matters began to arrive at every radio station in the land, the National Association of Broadcasters picked a man named Mark Foster Ethridge as president. But despite the inevitable newspaper headlines, no Tsar is Mark Ethridge. He is general manager of the Bingham papers in Louisville-the Courier-Journal and the Times-and he will spend more time in Louisville than he will in Washington. He took pains to make it clear last week...