Donald Jason Flamm investigation, and lawsuits that reached the New York Supreme Court by 1949. Flamm was eventually paid a settlement but did not get WMCA back. Noble had sold the station in 1943 to Nathan Straus, former Federal Housing Authority administrator, for $1,250,000 in order to found the “Blue Network,” which became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The Congressional investigation of the FCC absolved Noble, but drew a blistering dissent from the Republican minority. In 1944, lawyer John J. Sirica resigned as chief counsel to the Select Committee in protest of the handling of the case. Donald Flamm was then offered a
USS Edward J. McKeever Jr. (SP-684) M. F. Johnson in command. Assigned to the 4th Naval District, "Edward J. McKeever Jr." performed patrol, minesweeping, towing, and transport duties for the rest of World War I. On 21 May 1919, "Edward J. McKeever Jr." was decommissioned and sold to the Wilcox Fertilizer Company of Mystic, Connecticut. USS Edward J. McKeever Jr. (SP-684) USS "Edward J. McKeever Jr." (SP-684) was a United States Navy patrol vessel and minesweeper in commission from 1917 to 1919. "Edward J. McKeever Jr." was built as a commercial fishing vessel of the same name by Robert Palmer & Sons at Noank, Connecticut, in