Word: goerz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Germany, which was sending blobby pictures with the mechanical scan ner, heard of Farnsworth. To his Philadelphia laboratories went suave, crisp Dr. Paul Goerz, head of Fernseh Radioaktien-gesellschaft of Berlin, and a tall, super cilious radio engineer named Rudolph Moeller. After secret conferences and demonstrations, the Germans leased the Farnsworth system for Fernseh, backed by the Nazi Government. The price was not revealed, but as part payment Farnsworth got U. S. rights to Bosch and Zeiss patents controlled by Fernseh. These include a yellow receiving screen which is supposed to be superior to RCA-Victor's green...
Members Seeholzer, Sagar, Schmeltzer, Wurzler, Goerz and Robertson used to tip the employes who carry order slips from the telephone booths along the wall to brokers on the floor. Employes often gather up several orders for the same bond at the same time. It is to a broker's interest to get his order first and also to find out the amount of the other orders. Corrupt employes went first to the broker who had tipped him (or tipped him most), delivered his order, told him the size of the other orders. Opportunity for corruption also exists along...