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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Experimentation with broadcasting technique and research problems, will be the main fields covered by the Social Science division of the new Harvard Radio Workshop, Lawrence I. Radway '40, chairman of the committee announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radio Workshop Committee Reveals Plans for Research in Social Science | 3/2/1939 | See Source »

...revolt gained point when Chairman Drewry of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that now, a full year before the preliminaries to next

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Harmony | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee, which fortnight ago was entertained by SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' smart display of the insurance industry's enormous power, last week heard Bill Douglas try to prove that insurance directors use their influence to swing business their own way. Evidence: 1) while a director of New York Life, Alfred E. Smith solicited fuel oil contracts for certain of its properties; 2) Mutual Life's deposit at Bankers Trust Co. jumped from $150,000 to $1,500,000 when Bankers Trust's President S. Sloan Colt became a director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Curtain | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Rebuttal to that testimony came from New York Life's Chairman Thomas A. Buckner, whose directors include RCA's chairman and R. H. Macy's president. "If we carried out your theory to its logical conclusion," observed Mr. Buckner, "we couldn't send a radiogram or buy a desk at Macy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Curtain | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...hearings, Acting Chairman Hatton W. Sumners, who had borrowed a cough drop from Northwestern Mutual's President Michael J. Cleary, tossed Witness Cleary a new box of cough drops, commenting: "Nobody can say this committee can be bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Curtain | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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