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...tenant. National Broadcasting Co. With everything in readiness despite a last-minute flurry of confusion, one rainy night last week NBC dedicated its new quarters with a gala program. Bland words were spoken by NBC's President Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth, RCA's Board Chairman James Guthrie Harbord, GE's Board Chairman Owen D. Young, RCA's President David Sarnoff (speaking from London) and Sir John Reith, director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. with whom the tycoons chatted across the sea. Some 1,200 invited guests, mostly radio advertisers or their emissaries, watched and listened...
...claws by arousing public opinion: drives to sign up consumers all over the land; 1,500,000 volunteer workers; 100,000,000 "pieces of literature"; a big radio program with stage and screen stars; Alfred E. Smith, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Glenn Frank, Walter Chrysler, Senator La Follette, General Harbord, William Green, General Atterbury, Lewis A. Johnson (of the American Legion)-all teaching the Blue Eagle to scream...
...Stephens report dampened Founder Bush not a whit. He triumphantly announced that he had won the proxy "battle." President Stephens, who knows that a drastic reorganization is the company's only salvation, promptly resigned. Most of the directors including General James Guthrie Harbord, chairman of Radio Corp., Matthew Scott Sloan, onetime president of New York Edison, Chairman Frank Bailey of Prudence Co., also quit in disgust. With Director Frederick J. Lisman's resignation went a strong demand for an investigation by an impartial stockholders' committee...
...Rejected a resolution by Oklahoma's Johnson to amend the War Department supply bill so that no retired officer would be paid more than $2,400 per year. The amendment was aimed at General Pershing's $21.500 retirement pay, General Harbord...
...briefly during the War. In Boston where he was recovering from influenza Admiral Byrd rose up to reply: "I'm proud of being a naval officer. ... I will not be muzzled, intimidated nor stopped. . . . The principle of the right of liberty itself is involved. . . . Whether or not General Harbord, General Pershing and I are on the retired list makes no difference. . . . The movement will sweep forward...