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is President, composed largely of 100 watt stations, that the smaller stations were not adequately represented on the Board or among the higher officers of the NAB.
Quite a hot fight was waged over the treasurership with Isaac D. Levy, of WCAU, Philadelphia, reelected over John Shepard III, President of the Yankee Network, of Boston. The fact that any contest developed over the treasurership was attributed to the stand which Mr. Levy took in the copyright controversy.
There was a dramatic moment when Levy personally took the floor to explain his position on this, according to a dis¬ patch from Colorado Springs, which states that he began by sarcastically intimating that not 20$ of the membership under¬ stood the ASCAP problem. He had heard the stories about his selling them down the river, he stated, and then for 45 minutes he presented his side of the case. He referred to the weakness of the government's suit against ASCAP and the practical common sense of accepting the best terms possible. Levy stated that while the treasurership of NAB was a burden, he would stand for reelection.
At the conclusion of the session and after answering questions fired at him from all directions, Levy received a vote of confidence.
Apropos of the defeat of John Shepard by Levy for the treasurership, it was said that they had had previous business differences.
As had been anticipated, James W. Baldwin, former Secretary of the old Federal Radio Commission, and later Code Officer for the Broadcasting Industry, was appointed Managing Director to succeed Philip G. Loucks, who has resigned to return to law practice. Mr. Baldwin is a native of Indiana and had previously been connected with the National Association of Broadcasters. It is expected that Mr. Loucks will be retained in an advisory capacity by the Association, perhaps as counsel in copyright matters.
Although official figures are not as yet available as to the number of delegates who actually attended the convention, a new record was set with more than 300 registered at the Broad¬ moor Hotel and an estimated registration at other hotels which would probably bring the attendance up to 450.
A large proportion of the close to 100 stations which are owned and operated by newspapers were represented at a gettogether meeting to organize a separate section of the Broadcasters' Association. Walter Daram, Dean Fitzer, and Lambdin Kay were appointed as a committee to perfect the organization of this group.
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