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With hundreds of stations all on the same frequency, radio sets from one end of the country to the other began to squeak & squawk with interference. Secretary Herbert Hoover called a conference of all radio interests, and a definite broadcasting band was set aside. This solution was only temporary. Stations grew steadily in number and power until all wave lengths were occupied. The Department of Commerce thereupon declined to issue any more licenses. A 1926 Federal court decision threw the whole situation into chaos again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length...
...year turned its attention to fares, reduced them about 15%. So loud and prolonged was the outcry from United and American that after six months the three compromised on a middle rate between the new low and the old high-well justifying TWA's snort that "whatever the squawk, it costs less to travel from Newark to Chicago than it did a year ago, thanks to us." Last week TWA again set fire to the passenger fare structure, horrifying its rivals by suddenly introducing nationwide air "excursions" that for the first time put general airplane travel below most standard...
...Robert Ley all struggling for mastery of German economic and financial policy last week, Dr. Schacht himself went off to Essen and in this Krupp stronghold addressed a meeting of 400 directors of German savings banks. Some of them came out convinced they had heard the brusque, autocratic Reichsbanker squawk a guttural swan song. Others thought Dr. Schacht had delivered publicly just such an accounting of his stewardship as he might have made in private to convince the Führer that German economy must continue under Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht if the Fatherland is to avoid perilous overspending...
...Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger and gangster has had his story told. Until last week there had never been a squawk from the criminal...
Labor loomed with a new meaning. At the secret sessions of the Associated Press whose annual meeting overlapped the ANPA's, the AP's perennial President Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington Star, was quoted as saying, "I have no squawk to make over the decision." Yet nobody doubted that there had been plenty of squawks at the AP's inner council table. Criticism roiled around the handling of the case by AP's counsel, John W. Davis...