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7/2/43
FDR MYSTIFIES BY WITHDRAWING PAYNE NOMINATION
At this writing (Friday noon July 2) there was still considerable mystification with regard to the withdrawal of the renomination of George Henry i^ayne for a third term as Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Payne is a Republican and in 1912 served as campaign manager for President "Teddy” Roosevelt, The President sent Mr. Payne’s nomination to the Senate Thursday and the fact that he withdraw it 24 hours later on the eve of the beginning of the Cox FCC investigation, caused considerable speculation. Representative Cox said that Mr. Payne would be called upon to testify. There was confirmation of the report that charges would be made against Mr. Payne at the Cox hearings.
"Any FCC Commissioner who doesn’t have charges made against him at that investigation will be lucky", someone observed.
There were two big question in the mystery.
1. Why, if the President intended to drop Payne on July 1, did he send his renomination to the Senate on June 30?
2, Why did the President intend to drop Payne from office a move automatically effected by withdrawing the nomina¬ tion, since the Commissioner's term exoired midnight Wednesday,
On the first question informed officials generally, but not unanimously, speculated that the nomination went to the Senate by an outright clerical error on the part of the IWhite House secre¬ tarial staff. The suggestion was that with Payne’s terra expiring at midnight, the nomination was railroaded with a batch of other names, without the President's noticing and that the President had promised the position to someone else.
On the second question the White House silence let down the bars for a storm of speculation, ranging from the tantalizing question of office politics within the FCC, to more lavish issues of high political policy.
Payne was understood to have the indorsement of the two Senators from his State, Senators Wagner and Mead of New York, both Democrats and staunch supporters of White House policy.
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URGES WLE TO REVIEW SAN FRAI'JCISCO RADIO RULING
The National Association of Broadcasters has urged the San PY’ancisco regional War Labor Board to reject an arbiter’s award which stated that the job of a radio technician was the same no matter where he worked.
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