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RADIO COMM. v. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.

No. 122.

281 U.S. 464 (1930)

50 S.Ct. 389

74 L.Ed. 969

FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSION v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 19, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Bethuel M. Webster, Jr., Special Counsel, Federal Radio Commission, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. Paul M. Segal and Louis G. Caldwell were on the brief, for petitioner.

Messrs. Charles Neave, Stephen H. Philbin, and John W. Guider were on the brief for the General Electric Company.

Messrs. Hamilton Ward, Attorney General of New York, Henry S. Manley, Assistant Attorney General, and Claude T. Dawes, Solicitor General, were on the brief for the State of New York.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

A review is sought here of a decision of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia given on an appeal from an order of the Radio Commission.

The General Electric Company owned and was operating a broadcasting station at Schenectady, New York, when the Radio Act of 1927 went into effect. Thereafter it sought and obtained from the commission successive licenses under that act for the further...

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