| United States - 1928 - 312 pages
...public convenience, interest, or necessity require, does not confer an unlimited power, but is to be interpreted by its context, by the nature of radio...the public through the distribution of facilities. Yankee Network v. Federal Communications Commission, 1939, 107 F.2d 212, 71 App.DC 11. The policy of... | |
| United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commerce - 1938 - 126 pages
...setting up a standard so indefinite as to confer an unlimited power. * * * The requirement is to be interpreted by its context, by the nature of radio...by the scope, character, and quality of services. * * *" Part of the context is section 1 of the Communications Act, which states that the Commission... | |
| United States. Federal Communications Commission - 1941 - 182 pages
..."public interest, convenience, or necessity." The standard of public interest is given significance "by its context, by the nature of radio transmission...the scope, character, and quality of services," and by the general objectives of the statute.1 As thus construed by the Supreme Court, the term "public... | |
| United States Federal Communications Commission, Select Committee to Investigate the - 1943 - 816 pages
...criterion of "public convenience, interest, or necessity" is not an indefinite standard, but one to be "interpreted by its context, by the nature of radio...scope, character, and quality of services, * * *" And he cites Federal Radio Common v. Nelson Bros. Co. [Continuing reading:] Nothing in the context of which... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1943 - 898 pages
...power. Compare New York Central Securities Co. v. United States, 287 US 12, 24. The requirement is to be interpreted by its context, by the nature of radio...reception, by the scope, character and quality of services . . ." Federal Radio Comm'n v. Nelson Bros. Co., 289 US 266, 285. The "public interest" to be served... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1943 - 872 pages
...power. Compare New York Central Securities Co. v. United States, 287 US 12, 24. The requirement is to be interpreted by its context, by the nature of radio...reception, by the scope, character and quality of services . . ." Federal Radio Comm'n v. Nelson Bros. Co., 289 US 266, 285. The "public interest" to be served... | |
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