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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McAdoo's real political career began when he met Woodrow Wilson in the Princeton, N. J. railroad station in 1910, was so impressed that he helped elect Wilson Governor of New Jersey. Two years later he helped elect him President. He was the New Freedom's Secretary of the Treasury until after the Armistice. "To make it a people's Treasury rather than a bankers' Treasury," McAdoo made national banks pay 2 % interest on Government deposits, helped Carter Glass push through the Federal Reserve Act. The War saw McAdoo's zenith as a public servant...
...Government has no broadcasting station of its own. When U. S. officials want to broadcast their departmental achievements, they have to go to the Washington studios of the major networks. If the Government should announce that it was about to set up its own radio station, political razors might begin flying through the air. But last week, when the Government opened its first broadcasting studio in Washington, all was quiet along the Potomac. For the studio is not a station. Its programs must be wired to Washington's commercial stations, broadcast through regular commercial channels...
...Federal Radio Commission (now the Federal Communications Commission) encouraged an experiment. That experiment, and its results so far, have landed FCC in a tough spot. Under a six-month experimental license the Commission gave Powel Crosley Jr. the right to raise the broadcasting power of his Cincinnati station (WLW) from the U. S. maximum of 50,000 watts to 500,000 watts. Reason: to find out how much radio service the listener might gain (from the power boost) and lose (through interference with smaller stations). Enterprising Broadcaster Crosley spent $396,287 on his 500-kw. transmitter. When...
First complaint against WLW came before the original license expired from the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission. The 500-kw. power emanating from the Crosley Colossus interfered with a neighboring wave length assigned to station CFRB (Toronto). WLW raised a new antenna designed to control the direction of its broadcasting, turned its terrific voice away from Canada. But in the U. S. a different kind of complaint arose. Although WLW's license continued to be extended for six-month periods, it remained officially experimental. Owner Crosley was, nevertheless, in business - so much so that he raised WLW charges...
Last June, FCC opened hearings on the superpower question, last month took up the specific case of WLW, last week was told of business plucked from a small station by WLW's giant strength. The hearing closed with another renewal of WLW's experimental 500 kw. till February 1939. But this time the renewal is subject to the final decisions which will come out of FCC's hearings of the last two months. These decisions are likely to be delayed until next year while the FCC digests volumes of argument and thinks about the Senate, where, before...