Word: ge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Broadcasting Co. With everything in readiness despite a last-minute flurry of confusion, one rainy night last week NBC dedicated its new quarters with a gala program. Bland words were spoken by NBC's President Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth, RCA's Board Chairman James Guthrie Harbord, GE's Board Chairman Owen D. Young, RCA's President David Sarnoff (speaking from London) and Sir John Reith, director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. with whom the tycoons chatted across the sea. Some 1,200 invited guests, mostly radio advertisers or their emissaries, watched and listened. All this...
...When Father Gatt, assistant pastor, returned to get his clothes, parishioners recaptured him in the rectory. "We love him; we will not let him go!" they shouted. They fought the police, threw them out, locked the doors, refused admittance to a funeral party, cheered when the cortége retired to another church. They took the front doors off their hinges to prevent efforts to close the church, refused to let priests from nearby St. Paul's hold masses, listened to an all-day entertainment by a 20-piece band, rang the church bell for seven hours, broke...
Radio likewise made several financial adjustments last week. The two electric companies agreed to wipe off $8,938,000 of RCA's $17,938,000 debt to them. GE bought Radio's uptown Manhattan building for $4,745,000. Rockefeller Center Inc. at the same time agreed to let RCA reduce the amount of space it has leased, accepting $5,000,000 worth of preferred RCA stock for this concession...
...morning at Sacramento by Governor Rolph, getting off his train at Oakland to ferry across San Francisco Bay amid a din of factory and boat whistles, roaring airplanes, booming guns on the Presidio. The sidewalks of Market Street were packed solidly with cheering populace as his cortége moved through. At the civic centre Herbert Hoover went up to a balcony and said: "I accept this welcome not as President of the United States but as a Californian returning to his home State...
...Dublin sign painter, a Drogheda school teacher, a traveler named Rex Moore McVitty who came originally from Tandiragee, and two professional actresses, one from Athlone, one from Wicklow. Co-directors were Miceal Breathnach, a Galway engineer, and Patric Farrell, a young man with social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble in finding such powerful patrons as Mayor James John Walker, Financier Francis Patrick Garvan, Lawyers Dudley Field Malone and Frank P. Walsh, Critic Ernest Boyd, Sportsman Aiden Roark (of the British International Polo team), Actor Dudley Digges, the widow...