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...Chicago's radio and television stations, Lar Daly, an obscure stool jobber with an unappeased appetite for public office, is a chronic squawk of static. Each time Perennial Candidate Daly runs for mayor of Chicago or President of the U.S., he shrilly demands his full free share of the air waves.* By law he has it coming: Section 315 of the Communications Act, the so-called "equal time" provision, requires a broadcasting station to give any political candidate as much time as it gives any other-as Daly knows full well. Last week Lar Daly's insistence...
What generated President Eisenhower's interest was a recent Federal Communications Commission decision handed down after a Lar Daly complaint. Running for Chicago mayor, as usual, in this year's primary campaign, Splinter Candidate Daly howled that the TV stations had slighted him in favor of the other candidates-Democrat Incumbent Richard J. Daley and Republican Timothy P. Sheehan. The FCC agreed, ruled that Daly had time coming. Rather than contest the decision, most stations grudgingly put Lar ("America First") Daly (for legalized gambling, against public schools) on the air. WBBM-TV, the CBS station in Chicago...
...city which was virtually occupied by crushing police force (practically on every other block could be seen a pair of gray uniformed policemen with rifles on their shoulders--while on regu- lar duty they only carry revolvers) on the 17th of January members of "Franco's guard," pistol in hand, broke into the home of Bartolo Masolivar, a 4th year law student, forced him into a car, drove him to the country, and after stripping him, beat him and left him unconscious. Joaquin Jorda, 5th year law student, suffered the same fate...
...Autry conducted himself during his stay . . . His drunkenness was a poor example before the boys and girls that admire him greatly." Autry, by then moseying around Kansas, called up one of the preachers to apologize for whooping it up. "I guess you think I'm a reg'lar drunkard," mumbled Autry humbly. "Well, I'm not. I got in with the wrong bunch and before I knew it I got too much...
America First. For President (without his consent), General Douglas MacArthur; for Vice President (without his consent), Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd. Party Chairman Lar Daly, a Chicago businessman, has requested MacArthur to maintain "a dignified silence," but Party Chaplain E. Douglas MacArthur of Bensenville, Ill. is sure that the general, whom he claims as a second cousin, "is watching our progress with great interest." Progress to date: petition to get on the Illinois ballot rejected because it was submitted without the outside binding required...