Word: harbord
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stanley Baldwin, of Owen D. Young, of Ambassador Kellogg, of the Prince of Wales, were also transmitted. The man principally responsible for the new radiograph is Captain Richard H. Ranger, who devised the means of sending uniform impulses so that static does not annul the transmission. General J. G. Harbord, President of the Radio Corporation, philosophized: "As we study the forward marches of science and their effect of steadily shrinking the world to what will ultimately become a single, big community of fellow humans, we must admit the growing necessity for the development of a universal language. Until this...
...complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission against the Radio Corporation of America, alleging a monopoly in the radio business (TIME, Feb. 4), was answered in a preliminary way by General James G. Harbord, President of the Radio Corporation. He declared that not only was his company ready to open its books for a complete review of its status and activities, but that it had already done so to representatives of the Federal Trade Commission...
...General Harbord stated that the Radio Corporation was the result of the "request of responsible officers of the Navy Department in Washington that there be established a strong, purely American company to engage in the business of international wireless communication, and effectively compete with foreign-owned or controlled companies in that field." By mobilizing the electric patents of the leading American concerns, the Radio Corporation, he claimed, has ended selfish and obstructive rivalry, and greatly furthered the development of wireless communication. Radio Corporation acquired the American Marconi Co. from control of the British Marconi Co., and thus saved the General...
...peace plan has ceased to be open to ridicule. Any man from now on who seeks merely to make fun of it will make himself ridiculous. A scheme which has gained weight and dignity by the names and counsel of ELIHU ROOT, JOHN W. DAVIS, Judge LEARNED HAND, General HARBORD, Governor MILLER, Colonel HOUSE and honorable women not a few is no longer fair game for flippant humorists...
...detail, the plan suggests certain necessary and almost inevitable modifications of the Covenant of the League, it acknowledges that we should be a member of the League, and it proposes an immediate step in the direction of membership. The Jury of Award--consisting of Elihu Root, James Guthrie Harbord, Edward M. House, Ellen Fitz Pendleton, Roscoe Pound, William Allen White, and Brand Whitlock--has endorsed this plan as the best, part- ly because it represents the general opinions expressed by the 22, 156 plans placed before the Jury...