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First weeks of the Federal Communications Commission's investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. were enlivened by digressions into lobbying, horse racing and cinema production (TIME, March 30 et seq.). In the matter of revealing what Congress had appropriated $750,000 to have revealed-the how and why of telephone rates-Commission Counsel Samuel Becker got next to nowhere. In the past fortnight, however, Counsel Becker has borne down more consistently on the prime purpose of the investigation, giving Commission accountants a chance to talk. Questions raised thereby put FCC in a better position to ask Congress last week...
When grey-eyed, Mississippi-born young Mark Ethridge returned from the War to his newshawking job on the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, he shortly lost all his pay in a crap game and, as a gesture of extreme indigence, showed up for work in his Navy uniform. Such traditional didoes did not impede Mark Ethridge's progress on the paper. Soon he was city editor, later managing editor...
Under Editor Ethridge the Macon Telegraph regained much of its oldtime prestige, became "South Georgia's Bible," and "The Georgia Bombshell." Editor Ethridge loaded his bombshell with many a charge of what in the South was authentic editorial dynamite. He derided the Ku Klux Klan. He came out for Negro rights. He sympathized with poor-white tenant farmers. He lambasted Prohibitionists. He took to task the paternalistic Mill Village system of potent Bibb Manufacturing Co. For such activities Editor Ethridge was tagged an outstanding U. S. Liberal...
First company to comply with the Stock Exchange's suggestion was the biggest company listed on the Hoard, American Telephone & Telegraph. President Walter Sherman Gifford told the 350 A. T. & T. stockholders who turned out for the annual meeting in Manhattan last week that their company's profits for the twelve months through March 1936 were $130,000,000 compared to $118,000,000 for the same period through March 1935. Those figures were not for the entire Bell System, earnings of which were reported only through February. But to find out what the parent company...
...thunder stuff: political muckraking, frame-ups, jail-breaks, murder, the lash, electrocution. The action moved so fast we forgot all about the possible exaggerations and errors, all except one little flaw where a Western Union messenger boy delivers a telegram which turns out to be printed-on a Postal Telegraph blank. You have probably never heard of Donald Woods or Kay Linaker, the principal pair in the cast, but go to see them in "Road Gang." You'll like the picture, even if you are from Georgia...