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ducted a singlehanded crusade
to awaken educators to their
opportunities and responsibili
ties. When she first proposed to
the Commission that 25 percent
of all frequencies be set aside
for educators, she succeeded in
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
winning one vote—her own.
(Copyright, 1960, Jewish Telegraphic Ageney, Inc.)
"R a d i 0-TV without educa-
Those who say that women . publican, said the committee
can't make up their minds must liked her "fresh viewpoint." tors," she said, "is like law with-
not know Frieda Hennock. Miss The nomination was quickly out lawyers or medicine without
Hennock sometimes makes as approved.",
doctors." She is continuing her
many as 60 decisions a day in
When he swore Miss Hennock fight.
her capacity as the first woman In as the FCC's first woman
commissioner on the Federal commissioner, Chairman Wayne a
Communications Commission.
Coy observed, "We've had recti-
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An attractive blonde—thirty- tude, fortitude, and solemnitude,
ish looking, sophisticated, good- but never before pulchritude."
humored—Miss Hennock is one
Miss Hennock is of the opin-
of t h e high-
ion that control of communica-
est U.S. Gov-
tions is second only to atomic
ernment official
energy in national importance.
who wears a
She says, "It seems fundamen
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Star of David
tal in this field—so peculiarly
suspended from
affecting women—the viewpoint
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her ne ck 1-ace.
of their sex should be present-
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David
Broderick Tower
She 'matter-of-
ed„" She favors the increased
f a ctly explains
use of television for educational
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to t h e curiou4
purposes.
that it is a Jew
Toward this end, she has con-
ish Star — the Miss Hennock
same as the one on the Israel
flag. One of the most unusual
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women in the government, she
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is also among the most respect-
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ed. She is a self-made woman,
a female Horatio Alger, and a
charming and feminine person.
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Recently Miss Hennock read
for Hospitals, Doctors,
an article she liked in a New
York Yiddish daily. She took a
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sheet of paper from her desk
and wrote—in Yiddish—to the
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author to compliment h
For years she has actively par-
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ticipated in United Jewish Ap-
peal campaigns and worked
with the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies in New York.
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She has relatives in Israel and •
has closely followed the devel- •
opement of the Jewish state.
Her parents brought her to
New York City from Poland
There is not a ring in the •
when she was 6. During early
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world that we can't
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school years she showed con-
make
or
repair
spicuous talent as a pianist.
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However, after - graduation from
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19 Clifford St.
high school, she announced that
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she would become a lawyer. Her
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father disagreed, saying that
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she must continue in music. She
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not only became a lawyer but
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in fact was the youngest woman
lawyer in New York. To pay her
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way through night classes at
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Brooklyn Law Sc h o o 1, she
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worked for the law firm of
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Thom as & .Friedman. She
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earned her degree at the age
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During her first few years of
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practice she won acquittal for
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Wine, Champagnes and
seven persons accused of mur-
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der. When she was 23 s h e
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switched to corporation 1 a w
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and earned a fee of $55,000 in
at Cheyenne
a single case for arranging a
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She became widely known in
legal circles as assistant coun-
sel of the New York State Mort-
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gage Commission and as direc-
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tor of a special lecture course
at Brooklyn Law School. She
took an early interest in the
New Deal and supported Presi-
dent Roosevelt. She was asked.
to join Choate, Mitchell & Ely
Refrigeration and
Wyoming, cor. Curtis
in 1941, becoming the first
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publican firm since its establish-
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ment in 1807. Her almost in-
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credible energy and resourceful-
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Miss Hennock — "Fritzie" to
her friends — didn't surprise
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anyone who knew her then or
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in 1948 when President Truman
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appointed her to the FCC as
that agency's first woman mem-
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ber. She had become known as
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a champion of women's rights
and a leader in the liberal wing
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of the Democratic party. She
helped William O'Dwyer win the
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much respect from the Admin-
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istration for herself. In re-
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sponse to the Government's call,
she voluntarily gave up an an-
nual income which reportedly
ran in six figures: her Govern-
ment pay is but a fraction of it.
When she testified before a
predominantly R e p ub lican
Senate committee at a pre-
confirmation hearing, she was
&
disarmingly frank with the
Republicans. She told them,
"I'm against you and I always
have been." Asked whether
she knew anything a b o u t
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radio, she replied "only that I
raised a lot of money for radio
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programs for Roosevelt." Sen.
Owen Brewster, a Maine Re-
Frieda Hennock, Only Woman
On FCC, Wears Star of David
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Friday, April 20, 1951
Hebrew University Professor
Ends 22 Year Literary Project
With the appearance of the
sixth volume of Professor Joseph
Klausner's monumental "History
of the New Hebrew Literature,"
the Hebrew Literature Professor
Emeritus of the Hebrew Univer-
sity has completed a p r o j e c t
which extended over 22 years.
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