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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First. Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France announced at Paris that Tycoon Owen D. Young had accepted a joint Allied and German invitation to sit on the new Committee of Experts as one of two U. S. members. This meant that the revised Dawes Plan will probably go down in...
From the offices of the Federal Radio Commission there issued, last week, a dictum. The Commission exercised its right to allot the 639 short-wave channels which are available to commercial broadcasters in the U. S. ether. The Commission had to discriminate among 848 applicants, who asked a total of...
The Commission's dictum was no routine order. It contained many a bombshell. It allotted no additional channels to Radio Corp. of America or to the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Corp. but directed those two most potent applicants to appear for further hearings. Even more surprising was the allocation...
Incorporated last May, this company is backed by businessmen of Buffalo and Western New York. Among them: John W. Henry (hardware); William E. Shaddock (plumbing); Paul E. and William H. Fitzpatrick (contractors); Dan Roblin (housewrecking); Thomas J. Link (tobacco); Joseph E. Zent (furniture). From such divers trades was assembled a...
Expenses. To minority stockholders of the Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. came over $200,000, a voluntary contribution from the Brothers O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen, to pay the legal expenses of the minority's anti-merger (C. & O., Erie, Hocking Valley, Pere Marquette, Nickel Plate) battle before...