Federal Communications Commission: Hearings, United States Senate, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session, March 9-15, 1934U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 - 219 pages |
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amended American Telephone application authority BEHN Bell System bill cable and radio Captain HOOPER carriers subject CHAIRMAN charges committee common carrier communication by wire communication companies CONGRESS THE LIBRARY court depreciation division effect existing facilities Father HARNEY Federal Communications Commission Federal Radio Commission filed foreign Fort Smith GIFFORD Government hearing I.C. Act Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission jurisdiction legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS license line or circuit matter ment messages Navy operating panies paragraph percent person prescribe President proposed provisions public interest question Radio Act radio communication radio station railroad rates reason record regulation regulatory require respect Senator COUZENS Senator KEAN Senator LONG Senator WHEELER Senator WHITE sion statement subsidiary suggestion SYKES Telephone & Telegraph telephone companies thereof tion transmission United United States Senate users Western Union WILLEVER wire or radio words
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Page 1 - ... act, matter or thing in this act prohibited or declared to be unlawful...
Page 24 - ... no person not being entitled thereto shall receive or assist in receiving any interstate or foreign communication by wire or radio and use the same or any information therein contained for his own benefit or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto...
Page 21 - ... nothing in this Act contained shall in any way abridge or alter the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this Act are in addition to such remedies...
Page 19 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 199 - ... suspend the operation of such schedule and defer the use of such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice, but not for a longer period than seven months beyond the time when it would otherwise go into effect...
Page 23 - It shall be the duty of the various district attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, to prosecute for the recovery of forfeitures.
Page 19 - Board, on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture; but no individual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, except that such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for...