Word: harbord
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican speakers, including Major General James G. Harbord, President of Radio Corp. and Emory Roy Buckner, one-time U. S. District Attorney, flayed Mayor Walker. Excerpts...
Board Chairman of Radio Corp. is Owen D. Young. President of Radio Corp. is Major General James Guthrie Harbord. Active manager, busy nerve-centre of so much merging and intricacy, is David Sarnoff, Vice President and General Manager. Born in Uzlian, Minsk, Russia, on a cold winter's day in 1891, Mr. Sarnoff arrived in the U. S. in 1900. He delivered meat, sold newspapers, sang in a choir. His parents hoped he would become a rabbi. At the age of nine he had been studying the Talmud for three years. In 1906 Sarnoff Sr. died. In the same...
...C.F.R.F. was organized under the aegis of General James G. Harbord, president of Radio Corp. of America, with Doctor S. Parkes Cadman, so-called and famed "National Radio Pastor," as chairman...
...only major U. S. organization collecting and distributing funds to fill 12,000,000 Chinese tummies which grow daily emptier. Originally the C. F. R. F. appealed-and is still appealing - for $10,000,000 - less than $1 for each hungry Chinese. Some months ago General James G. Harbord, President of the Radio Corporation of America, resigned as Chairman of the Fund-which has now collected a scant $300,000. Last week General Harbord's successor, the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches was laboring with but indifferent success to recognize the China...
Major-General James Guthrie Harbord, president of Radio Corporation of America, on leave of absence to help collect campaign funds...