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Major General James G. Harbord. He entered the Army in 1889 as a private in the Fourth Infantry. Later he rose successively through the various grades of officerdom and eventually became Chief of Staff of the A. E. F. He was chief of the American Military Mission to Armenia in 1919. In 1921 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff, U. S. A. He is now President of the Radio Corporation of America...
...Committee of Award, chairmanned by Elihu Root and including Brand Whitlock, Colonel Edward M. House, Major General James G. Harbord, William Allen White, has been considering the plans submitted for over a month. Its final decision is to be made about the first of the year. Then a straw vote of the country will be taken on the chosen plan...
...Edouard Belin, French inventor, completed an invention for transmitting photographs by wire (TIME, April 7). Last week the Radio Corporation of America sent a photograph by wireless from New York to Warsaw, Poland, and back again-9,000 miles. It was a picture of Major General James G. Harbord, President of the Corporation, and the reproduction was perfect. The picture was not reproduced in Warsaw because the requisite machinery is not yet installed there. The inventor is E. F. W. Alexanderson, radio innovator. Each variation of light and shade in a photograph is translated into punctures of ticker tape, which...
Among the visitors were Major General J. G. Harbord, Major General Robert Lee Bullard, Lady Armstrong, Congressman Hicks, Walter Camp, Jr. Waving flags dotted the scene...
...case of war General Pershing would at once assume command of the entire army and General Harbord would automatically become Chief of Staff, thus effectively removing an obstacle to efficient organization similar to that encountered by the British War Office in 1914 when the staff officers were all in command of sections in France at the time when their presence was most needed in London...