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Timestamp: 2017-11-24 20:16:01
Document Index: 125381552

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1032', '§ 222', '§ 222', '§ 222', '§ 222', '§ 222', '§ 222']

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, RESPONDENTS, AMERICAN CABLE & RADIO CORPORATION, ALL AMERICA CABLES AND RADIO, INC., THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY, MACKAY RADIO AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, R. C. A. COMMUNICATIONS, INC., AND AMERICAN COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATIONS, INTERVENORS.
Invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under 5 U.S.C.A. § 1032 [64 Stat. 1129 (1950)], The Western Union Telegraph Company petitions to set aside an order of the Federal Communications Commission made July 9, 1958 pursuant to § 222 (c)(2) of the Communications Act [47 U.S.C.A. § 222(c)(2), 57 Stat. 5 (1943)], modifying "the Commission's Order of September 27, 1943 * * * to provide that * * * Western Union * * * is directed [1] on or before December 31, 1958 to present to the Commission a plan pursuant to which * * Western Union * * * proposes to divest itself of its international telegraph operations, [2] such plan to provide for divestment by any method permissible under then existing statutes * * * within a period of not more than 6 months from the date of the approval of the plan by the Commission * * * [and] * * * [3] to report to the Commission in detail, one month from the effective date of this Order and monthly thereafter, its progress with respect to the divestment * * *" [In the Matter of The Western Union Telegraph Company, Docket No. 10151, - F.C.C. - (1958).]
Accordingly, § 222(c)(2) of the Communications Act was enacted in 1943 [57 Stat. 51] to provide that:
"Any proposed consolidation or merger of domestic telegraph carriers shall provide for the divestment of the international telegraph operations theretofore carried on by any party to the consolidation or merger, within a reasonable time to be fixed by the Commission, after the consideration for the property to be divested is found by the Commission to be commensurate with its value, and as soon as the legal obligations, if any, of the carrier to be so divested will permit. The Commission shall require at the time of the approval of such consolidation or merger that any such party exercise due diligence in bringing about such divestment as promptly as it reasonably can." 47 U.S.C.A. § 222(c)(2).
And § 222(e) directs that the merged company, Western Union, distribute overseas telegraph traffic among the several international carriers and divide the charges for such traffic "in accordance with such just, reasonable, and equitable formula in the public interest as * * the Commission shall approve * * *" [Id. § 222(e)(1).]
By the time this proceeding was instituted by Commission order of March 5, 1952, Western Union had petitioned for and procured 8 annual extensions of time within which to present a plan of divestment, and had filed with the Commission 32 quarterly reports on the status of negotiations ...