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Regulation of Federal Government Radio Operations. The Communications Act of 1934 states that stations belonging to and operated by the federal government shall use frequencies assigned by the president. That authority has been redelegated to the director of telecommunications management (DTM), who heads the Office of Telecommunications Management (OTM), the government counterpart of the FCC. His authority in assigning frequencies and other matters derives from presidential executive orders.He was chairman of Imperial Airways (1938-1939) and of its successor, British Overseas Airways Corporation (1939-1940), and then became minister of information. Later in 1940 he was shifted to the Ministry of Transport, and then was appointed minister of works and buildings and first commissioner of works, a position he held until 1942. For the next three years he served in the navy. In 1945 he was chairman of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Conference, from 1946 to 1950 chairman of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Board, and after 1950 chairman of the Colonial Development Corporation.
In North American Indian societies, headhunting usually took the form of scalping, the remainder of the head not being taken. As in Assam, trophy taking was a necessary part of acquiring full adult status. In parts of South America, heads were shrunk in hot sand for preservation. As in New Zealand, outside traders often bought them. Most such heads now sold abroad, however, are not in fact human heads but those of monkeys. Headhunting has been reported from parts of West Africa, especially northern Nigeria, where it was associated both with giving fertility to crops and with providing the taker of heads with slaves in the afterlife. In Europe, headhunting was practiced in the Balkans, especially in Montenegro, until early in the 20th century. The Montenegrin head taker believed that he would acquire the soul matter of the victim, and carried the head by its hair in his belt as a sign of his prowess.
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