Word: sectioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station, and the Commission shall make rules and regulations to carry this provision into effect: PROVIDED, that such licensee shall have no power of censorship over the material broadcast under the provisions of this section. No obligation is hereby imposed upon any licensee to allow the use of its station by any such candidate...
...reads Section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934, giving the FCC the job of setting rules for radio's participation in political campaigns. Since the Communications Act became law, four years of election campaigns have passed into history, one Presidential contest. Loud cries of foul! rose from candidates who thought themselves victims of station discrimination. But the FCC left its mandate untouched...
...Chicago to open London's first modern department store in 1909. Last year Self ridge's did $65,000,000 worth of business, some $20,000,000 of it in provincial divisions, at a profit of $4,000,000. One highly successful department was the 3d. & od. section. This fact, plus a growing certainty that England is slipping steadily into a business recession, are Merchant Selfridge's reasons for John Thrifty. He operated a 3d. & 6d. chain by that name for several years but abandoned it in 1930. Last week, John Thrifty returned to life...
...reorganization plan of Spokane International Railway and Coeur d'Alene & Pend d'Oreille Railway calling for the merger of the two. Total trackage of these two roads is 161 miles, but the event was a milestone: the first ICC approval of a Class I reorganization since Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Law was extended to railroads...
...only inferior scholars and gentlemen but indifferent judges of whiskey. Said he: "When the concepts of this phrase were widely realized in the lives of her sons, the South bristled with distinction. In so far as these ideals have fallen into desuetude, the South has drifted into mediocrity. This . . . section will regain eminence only as its leaders climb again to the triple peaks of this homely epigram...