T

o enter at this time upon a discussion of the law of radio communication when that law has not yet come into being, is on a small scale to follow the great Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon of whom it has been said that he "threw out the plan of a universal dictionary of sciences and arts at a time when, so to say, neither arts nor sciences existed," and that when it was impossible to write a history of what was known, he “wrote one of what it was necessary to learn."

THE LAW OF RADIO

COMMUNICATION

BY

STEPHEN DAVIS

Solicitor of the Department of Commerce; Formerly Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Awarded the Linthicum Foundation Prize,
by the Faculty of Law of Northwestern
University, under the Charles C. Linthicum
Foundation, June, 1927.

FIRST EDITION

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COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY THE
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THE MAPLE PRESS COMPANY, YORK, PA.

WHOSE WISE GUIDANCE IN THE FORMATIVE STAGES OF
RADIO COMMUNICATION CONTRIBUTED SO GREATLY
TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS NEW SERVICE TO THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.

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