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...Governor's Island, N. Y.-retired at the age of 64. General Bullard was the commander of the famed First Division in France. He is the last of what was called the "Big Four" to be retired for age. The other three are Major General Jaine G. Harbord (now President of the Radio Corporation of America), Major General Hunter Liggett and General J. J. Pershing...
...presence of Major General James G. Harbord, U. S. A., retired, who represented President Coolidge, and many distinguished Cubans and Americans, Mrs. Roosevelt pulled down the flag which shrouded the monument. Military and naval officers stood at the salute, civilians bared their heads...
...General Harbord in a long speech recalled the Spanish-American War, the reasons for which it was fought, and the great part Theodore Roosevelt, "for years beloved in a free Cuba," had therein played...
...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...
...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...