Savagery.

ercive mechanism of the State. The FCC controlled the allocations of wave lengths—and by denying FM its fair channels of communication in the public domain of the air the FCC effectively throttled Armstrong. So it was the political power that was Armstrong’s real enemy.

Should Armstrong have paid the little men of the FCC the compliment of killing himself? Ideally, no. Commander McDonald of the Zenith Corporation hasn’t committed suicide because the FCC stupidly refuses to license his pay-as-you-see television system, and he isn’t likely to. But with Armstrong, his character was his fate.