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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Manhattan, through Vice President & General Counsel Manton Davis, RCA declared that there was "no foundation whatsoever for the charges, denied them in toto.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Philco v. RCA | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

¶ England: the Davis Cup, for the fourth successive year, when, with the score two matches all, dashing Fred Perry beat Australia's Jack Crawford, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; at Wimbledon.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 10, 1936 | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

The Denver free-for-all between Publishers Bonfils and Roy Wilson Howard came to a nominal end in 1928 when the Post discontinued a morning edition and the News withdrew from the evening field. Yet the struggle for prestige and profits was still as keen as ever. That Denverites, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Davis to Denver | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

In his 20-odd years of newspapering Forrest Davis had never before held down an executive job. Born in Indiana, this son of a Presbyterian minister gravitated to Manhattan, became the ace newshawk of the World-Telegram. Equally good at straight reporting or feature writing, he was given a roving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Davis to Denver | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

Denverites liked his looks, which suggest Cinemactor Warner Oland playing Charlie Chan. Quick with compliments, Editor Davis got off on the right foot by saluting Denver as "the civilized capital of a glamorous, robust Rocky Mountain Empire with a culture of its own which I hope to understand and enter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Davis to Denver | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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