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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government employes occupy a more ticklish position than the seven members of the Federal Communications Commission, whose weightiest duty is to assign air channels and regulate their use by U. S. broadcasters. Last week President Roosevelt did to the Commission just twice as much as he had just done to the Supreme Court. He took advantage of two vacancies to appoint two new members who will bring it more into line with his own ideas...
...year-old Annapolis graduate who has been the Commission's Chief Engineer for two years. To replace Chairman Anning S. Prall, who died last July, the President temporarily transferred Frank Ramsay McNinch from the chairmanship of the Federal Power Commission. Able, sharp-faced Mr. McNinch, 64, twice mayor of Charlotte, N. C., is a close adviser of the President on power questions. He promptly announced that he knew nothing about the F. C. C. except what he reads in the papers. Last week Mr. McNinch had the opportunity to read plenty...
...astrology, he regarded the approach of Finsler's Comet with apprehension ("Comets and left-handed pitchers don't go well together"). His mother, of whom he was very fond, lay ill in Rodeo, Calif. Four times he had tried to win his 14th game and failed-twice against Chicago, once against Detroit, once against Philadelphia. He had sped by plane to California for a bedside visit, had sped back East to take his turn on the mound...
...convict, only seven months out of Sing Sing where he had been sent for a sex crime, was sentenced to 25-years-to-life for taking two girls, 8 and 10, to a cinema and carnally molesting them. Indicted in Brooklyn was another ex-convict, 49, and twice convicted of statutory offences against children. He had strangled and assaulted an 8-year-old girl in the basement of her tenement home. In Chicago, a 17-year-old high-school junior was convicted of assaulting a girl of 9 in the basement of an apartment building. The girl recovered from...
...principal field is the Van Field in East Texas, 80% of which it owns. Last year when Texas production seemed excessive the Texas Railroad Commission ordered a reduction in the allowable for the Van Field, compelling Pure Oil to buy 11,000,000 barrels from other producers-twice as much as the year before. As a result Pure Oil's profit for 1936, $7,658,000 was nearly $500,000 less than in 1935. This year, though Texas has raised its proration. Pure Oil needs all the new production it can get to meet the greatly increased demand...