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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruling grew out of the Mayflower Broadcasting Corp.'s unsuccessful application in 1941 to take over the radio frequency used by the Yankee Network's Worcester station WAAB. FCC had been blasting WAAB for broadcasting "socalled editorials . . . urging the election of various candidates . . . or supporting one side or another of various questions in public controversy." WAAB's license was grudgingly renewed but only on the station's promise not "to color or editorialize" the news...
...Commentators of pronounced opinions, either to left or right (e.g., Johannes Steel, Fulton Lewis Jr., Henry J. Taylor) have not come under the Mayflower decision because they broadcast for advertisers and do not speak for station-owners...
Self-Interest. In London, after a 22-month manhunt for Escaped Murderer James Edward Allen, Scotland Yard men spotted him in front of a police station, reading his own "Wanted" notice...
...Evans, longtime Kansas City personal and political friend of Harry Truman. Tall, white-haired Tom Evans lent Truman $5,000 to help finance his 1940 senatorial campaign. In 1948 Evans gave $3,000 himself, raised $100,000 more in the Midwest. He owns Kansas City's station KCMO, is board chairman of Crown Drug Co., a chain with 85 stores in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma...
...through the Texas Panhandle and the south plains, the combines lumbered south along the country roads. Like engines of war massing for an offensive, they clustered in town squares, ballparks and filling-station driveways. Their crews sat in tents and trailers, cursing the thunderstorms that turned the wheatfields into quagmires. In the few fields that dried out, the first combines scythed their way north across the waving grain. This week, the second biggest winter wheat harvest (an estimated 1,021,000,000 bushels v. 1947's alltime record of 1,068,000,000) in U.S. history would get underway...