Word: rogan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ROGAN JONES...
Soon Mr. Darwin and Rogan Jones, the stocky, breezy owner of KVOS, had agreed on a contract, arranged to split profits from the "Newspaper of the Air." Listeners liked the newscasting, the "fighting" editorials which the radio station directed against the Bellingham Herald and other political foes. First trouble for KVOS came when the A. P. asked for an injunction to prevent the broadcasters from appropriating its news as it appeared in member papers. Financial support came, to KVOS from the National Association of Broadcasters, representatives of a notoriously timid yet greedy industry, glad to find an obscure test case...
...Enquirer ran 29½ columns of society news on the festival last week. Mr. Benjamin W. Lamson "deserted his own box party to enjoy Miss Ferguson's charming wit and humor." Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott of Dayton "wore her pearls and diamonds in her ears." "Miss Mary Elizabeth Rogan was a dainty charmer. . . ." Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson "was, as always, very distinguee." Mrs. Henry Probasco was "very Grande Dame." The Hinkle box was "a scene of constant va et vient." Mrs. E. W. Edwards' daughter was missed but "she, of course, is not going out if, any large...
Again the Associated Press was plaintiff, this time against radio station KVOS in Bellingham, Wash. The station, owned by a Scotsman named Rogan Jones, had been helping itself to AP news in the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Bellingham Herald, broadcasting it thrice a day as "The Newspaper of the Air." AP obtained a temporary restraining order, wanted it made into a permanent injunction. It cited not only the Supreme Court decision, but also a 1933 case in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. where a Federal judge enjoined a radio station from lifting AP news, with the opinion that property...
BLACK FOG-Charles J. Dutton-Dodd, Mead ($2). Murder by poison gas in New England brings Detective Rogan out of pseudo-retirement...