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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, to be counsel for Goodyear Zeppelin Corp., counsel for Western Air Express, Board Chairman of New York. Rio & Buenos Aires Airways...
Radio Music Co. intends to form a board of musical judges. The classical will be represented by such men as Walter Damrosch, Tin Pan Alley by such connoisseurs as Feist's Edgar Bitner. Anybody who has written a musical composition may submit it. To ensure unprejudiced judgments the board will be kept in ignorance of the composer's name. If a composition is accepted, Radio Music Co. will publish it, NBC will broadcast it, RKO Productions perhaps may make of it a theme song, Radio-Victor will make records of it. But in all cases Radio Corp...
...position as the world's largest consumer of tin and lead. For this reason National Lead, like any wise concern, keeps an eye on its raw supplies. It owns some Patiño stock, keeps its own president and vice president on the Patiño board of directors, was long a partner with Patiño in owning Williams, Harvey & Co. of Liverpool, world's largest tin smelters...
Edward Nash Hurley* of Chicago, wartime chairman of U. S. Shipping Board, in a letter to Georges Theunis of Belgium. President of International Chamber of Commerce, pointed the path to everlasting peace. Said he: "If the leaders of the great industries which own, control, transport, refine and fabricate the 'key commodities' would not sell them to any actual or prospective belligerent, politicians would hesitate before precipitating wars. . . . There are two or three dozen men in the world today who could meet and form a gentleman's agreement." Some of the men and commodities he then mentioned...
Archly the rival Tribune pasted the clipping on its bulletin board with this legend: "When there is no news, the Herex digs...