E. K. Jett

While most men were simply discharged at the end of their term of enlistment, Congress provided for some sailors with specialized skills to transfer to the permanent Navy as officers.

Jett became assistant chief engineer responsible for non-broadcast radio services (e.g., common-carrier wireless communications) under Craven in 1931.

There was immediate controversy, however, as some Republican senators felt that Jett was too closely associated with the FCC's Democratic chairman, James Lawrence Fly.

According to Broadcasting, he was known as the technical expert on the commission at this time, and also as the "father of two-way radios in police cars."

Jett did not serve out his full seven-year term, leaving the commission 3+1⁄2 years later, on December 31, 1947; he was replaced by George E. Sterling.

Jett resigned from the FCC to become vice-president of A. S. Abell Company, publisher of The Baltimore Sun and then licensee of WMAR radio and television.