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...convention gravely assembled, the publishers delivered themselves of three wordily ambitious resolutions: i) that the Federal Radio Act be amended to subject radio broadcasters to the same stringent regulations against lottery and gift-prize advertisements as now apply to newspapers in the postal laws; 2) that broadcasts of news be confined to press associations and newspapers; and that radio programs be published by newspapers as paid advertising only; 3) that the legality of "Government protected" broadcasting of direct advertising on exclusively assigned wavelengths be questioned as unfair competition...
...Evansville, onetime tailor and accountant, Mason, Moose, Eagle and Shriner, was elected to the House of Representatives from the First Indiana District in 1924. Last November a Democrat beat him for reelection. The Rowbottom campaign fund was in the red. As a "lame duck," he continued to get small postal jobs for friends, took their money as contributions to his deficit. For this he was caught, indicted. On trial at Evansville last week he admitted that one Walter Ayer had given him $750 and that he had recom- mended Ayer's son Gresham for a rural carriership, that...
...Public Service Ticket Office Inc.; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A Hungarian Jew, he was the first ticket broker to buy up blocks of seats, sell them at cut rates. Early this year he took over the distribution system planned by the League of New York Theatres with Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. to reduce ticket speculation. Through his agencies, his real estate deals, his backing of Broadway productions he accumulated some $20,000,000. Among many plays which he saved from failure: Rose Marie, Abie's Irish Rose, The Cat and the Canary...
...flexible authority from the White House to the Capitol; 3) Unemployment insurance; 4) co-ordinate State and Federal job agencies (the vetoed Wagner bill); 5) repeal of the War- time espionage act; 6) a law against Federal wiretapping; 7) admission of Cabinet members to Congressional debates; 8) removal of postal censorship over the Press; 9) no more deportations of political refugees...
...Postal's Year. Bad business, perhaps also much competition from long distance telephone service, has flattened the earnings of telegraph companies. Last week the directors of Postal Telegraph & Cable (common stock 100%-owned by International Telephone & Telegraph) met, looked at the 1930 report, promptly passed the 7% preferred dividend. Postal's gross last year slipped from $40,258,000 in 1929 to $37,923,000. After expenses and bond interest, it earned a paltry $96,000 against $2,972,000 in 1929. Not so drastic was Western Union's decline which brought 1930 earnings...