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ROOSEVELT MAY APPOINT NET/ COMMISSIONERS
Chances for the appointment of a Republican to succeed Gen. Charles McK. Saltzman, chairman of the Federal Radio Com¬ mission, whose place has been vacant several months, went glim¬ mering with the assertion of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Demo¬ cratic leader of the Senate, that, with a few major exceptions, such as the Secretary of Commerce, Roy D. Chapin, no appoint¬ ments by President Hoover would be confirmed at the short ses¬ sion of the Senate.
The Commissioner ship will likely be left for Governor Roosevelt to fill after his inauguration as President. If President Hoover should reappoint Commissioner Eugene 0. Sykes, a Democrat, from Mississippi, whose term expires in February, he will no doubt be confirmed. That is, if there were no pres¬ sure exerted in behalf of Representative Ewin L. Davis, of Tenn¬ essee, present chairman of the House radio' committee, who was beaten for renomination in the primaries,
One story has it that Judge Sykes aspires to a Federal judgeship. If that is true and President Roosevelt should make such an appointment, the way would then be left open for Representative Davis.
A theory, pretty generally accepted, is that President Hoover did not appoint a successor to General Saltzman because he desired to reduce the Federal Radio Commission from five to three members as an economy measure. If that is true, he
would appoint no successor when Judge Sykes time is out, It would then be up to President Roosevelt to decide whether it shall be a five-man or a three-man Commission,
The three members left would be Harold A. Lafount and Thad Brown, Republicans, and William Starbuck, a Democrat, should President Roosevelt decide the Commissioner ships should be eliminated. The Democrats would be in the minority for two • years, until the term of Commissioner Lafount expires, at which time President Roosevelt would be almost certain to appoint a Democrat to succeed him.
The two Republicans on the Commission are sitting prett Lafount 's term does not expire until 1935 and Thad Brown is in until 1938. They cannot be removed before that time for political reasons. Starbuck' s term runs out in 1934.
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Another publisher of so-called "song-sheets” has pro¬ mised the Federal Trade Commission to discontinue use of the words "Broadway and Hollywood Popular Songs" and "Songs of Radio, Stage and Screen" to designate song sheets consisting of comic verses, parodies on popular song hits, and other similar compositions.
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