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Victor. During 1925, Victor Talking Machine lost $4,187,879 by scrapping its old type machines and remodeling its factories at Camden, N. J., to make Radiolas (combined talking machines and radio receiving sets) and Orthophonics (talking machines controlled by vacuum tubes). This was to offset competition of radio receiving set manufacturers (TIME, Dec. 20). The rewards of the changes came last year. Profits were $7,983,094, the largest for the company since 1916, wrote President Edward E. Shumaker to stockholders last week...
...Zweiger] ever heard of Stephen B. Elkins, John E. Kenna, N. B. Scott, J. N. Camden or W. P. Hubbard? Does he know John Cornwall, John W. Davis or Governor Gore? To quote Mr. Zweiger. Does he not think that they "stack up against Fess and Willis...
Died. David Baird, 87, onetime (1918-19) U. S. Senator from New Jersey; following an acute kidney condition; at Camden...
Last week another vast business passed, from the family that built it, toward the hands of the public. Eldridge R. Johnson, the Camden, N. J., mechanic who 32 years ago took the squeak out of toy phonographs like the ones he saw at Coney Island; his son, E. R. Fenimore Johnson, and his secretary, H. R. Hathaway, turned over a majority holding of common stock in the Victor Talking Machine Co. to J. and W. Seligman & Co., Manhattan brokers, and Speyer & Co., Manhattan bankers. For all 348,863 shares outstanding, the buyers were prepared to pay some 40 millions hospital...
...beginning of a great career"?silly because the greatness is complete, the "oneself" has been sung. The rest is controversial and boisterous"Walt the boastful, Walt the Broadway swaggerer. It is splendid and touching?Walt nursing Civil War soldier boys, Walt's seerhood and second childhood in Camden, N. J. But it is all on the down grade, all in the public eye and more or less familiar, all but the peace of Walt's profound epitaph?...