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| | Nat. Broadcasting Co. v. U.S. (1943) |
 | | Pottsville Broadcasting Co., 309 U.S. 134, 137, 60 S.Ct. 437, 438, [214] 'In its essentials the Communications Act of 1934 (so far as its provisions relating to radio are concerned) derives from the Federal Radio Act of 1927. |
 | | It is only as an incident of the power to grant or withhold licenses to individual stations under 307, 308, 309 and 310 that this [229] authority is claimed,[note 1] except as it may have been provided by subdivisions (g), (i) and (r) of 303, and by 311 and 313. |
 | | The criterion of 'public convenience, interest, or necessity' is not an indefinite standard, but one to be 'interpreted by its context, by the nature of radio transmission and reception, by the scope, character, and quality of services,. |
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