NAEB Newsletter (Nov 1941)

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NAEB NEWS LETTER November 15 Page 3 Copies of a manual on a How To Partioipate 11 are being mailed out TO 1,700 COLLEGE PRESIDENTS, 18,000 SUPER INTEN0CNT8 OF SCHOOLS, 26,000 HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS, 9,000 LIBRARIANS, AND NUMEROUS CIVIC GROUPS* A REQUEST -- OR A SUGGEST l SSL . .r .SSSLS/hSPBf MT.t m Why not have the Federal Government set up a central agency to HANOLE ALL OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE RADIO ~ L7ASES AND SUPPLY THEM TO THE STATIONS IN ONE PARCEL IN SHAPE FOR RADIO? ONE RE¬ LEASE RECEIVED ONCE A OAY OR ONCE A WEEK ‘ILL GET MORE ATTENTION THAN A NUMBER OF NONDESCRIPT DRI6BLINGS FROM THE IT NY FEDERAL AGENCIES. IN KEEPING WITH TMC *UNI TED YfC STAND 1 * I Dt A LET THtfSE AGENCIES SET AN EXAMPLE IN COOPERATION. CLIFFORO J. PURR, NEW FCC COMMISS;ONER Clifford Judkin9 Durr of Alabama became a member of the Federal Communications Commission, takinq the oath at the Commission^ offices on November I . Mr. Ourr was nominated by President Roosevelt on October 13 for a SEVEN YEAR TERM, AND WAS CONFIRMED SY THE SENATE ON 0CT0BBR 29. He fills the vacancy caused by the expiration, on June 30 last, of the term of Frederick I* Thompson, also of Alabama* Since 1936 Mr. Durr had been assistant general counsel of the Re¬ construction Finance Corpot *.tion, with which he had been associated IN LEGAL WORK.SINCE 1933. KO FI TWO YEARS HE HAD SERVEO AS A DIREC¬ TOR of the Commodity Credit Corporation, and when the Defense Plant Corporation was created in august of this year he was named its general counsel ano later became a director. Born at Montgomery, Alabama, on March 2, 1898, Mr* Durr received HIS A.B. DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA |NcI 9I9*. THREE YEARS LATER, AS A RrtOOES SCHOLAR, HE WAS AWARDED HIS B. A. IN JURISPRUDENCE 1Y OXFORD UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND. Returning to the United States, Mr. Durr y/as admitted to the Alabama bar in 1923 and to the Wisconsin bar two years later. Until entering Government service, he had, in turn, been connected with THE Montgomery VAW firm of Rushton, Crenshaw and Rushton; the Milwaukee law firm of Fawsett, Smart and Shea, and the Bir¬ mingham LAY/ FIRM OF MARTIN, THOMPSON, TURNER ANO faCWHORTER. AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK ON KFKU In observance of American Education Week, November 9-15, the University of Kansas School of Education, in cooperation with KFKU, PRESENTED DISCUSSION OVER THE AIR OF SOME OF THESE PHASES