The Law of Radio CommunicationMcGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated, 1927 - 206 páginas |
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Página 24 - The powers thus granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with the progress of the country and adapt themselves to the new developments of time and circumstances.
Página 188 - Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the Commission from time to time, as public convenience, interest, or necessity requires shall — (a) Classify radio stations ; (b) Prescribe the nature of the service to be rendered by each class of licensed stations and each station within any class...
Página 88 - It may be said in a general way that the police power extends to all the great public needs. ... It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality or strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Página 56 - Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the construction, or operation, or construction and operation, of such additional or extended line...
Página 68 - ... if the government refrains from the absolute conversion of real property to the uses of the public, it can destroy its value entirely, can inflict irreparable and permanent injury to any extent, can, in effect, subject it to total destruction without making any compensation, because, in the narrowest sense of that word, it is not taken for the public use.
Página 97 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Página 123 - The writings which are to be protected are the fruits of intellectual labor, embodied in the form of books, prints, engravings and the like. The trademark may be and, generally is, the adoption of something already in existence as the distinctive symbol of the party using it. At common law the exclusive right to it grows out of its use, and not its mere adoption.
Página 31 - In solving the problem of maintaining the efficiency of an interstate commerce railway system which serves both the States and the Nation, Congress is dealing with a unit in which State and interstate operations are often inextricably commingled.
Página 99 - ... 3. Businesses which though not public at their inception may be fairly said to have risen to be such and have become subject in consequence to some Government regulation. They have come to hold such a peculiar relation to the public that this is superimposed upon them. In the language of the cases, the owner by devoting his business to the public use, in effect grants the public an interest in that use and subjects himself to public regulation to the extent of that interest although the property...
Página 68 - ... to any extent, can, in effect, subject it to total destruction without making any compensation, because in the narrowest sense of that word, it is not taken for the public use. Such a construction would pervert the constitutional provision into a restriction upon the rights of the citizen, as...