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General James Guthrie Harbord, president of Radio Corp. of America, was made a director of Bush Terminal...
Although there were rumors that the centralization of control would result in the formation of a new super-holding company, there was nothing on the face of the transaction to alter the positions of Radio's Executive Committee Chairman Owen D. Young, or Chairman James G. Harbord or President David Sarnoff. Mr. Sarnoff said that the new arrangement would result in operating economies resulting in cheaper radio sets and tubes and that the stock transfer represented compensation for the patent and manufacturing facilities acquired. Meanwhile Oswald Schuette, executive secretary of the Radio Protective Association (anti-Radio Corp. radiomen) said...
Elected. David Sarnoff, 38, vice president, onetime Russian immigrant messenger boy; to be president of Radio Corp. of America, succeeding Maj.-General James Guthrie Harbord, who succeeds Owen D. Young as board chairman, Mr. Young to head a new Executive Committee...
General James Guthrie Harbord, President of Radio Corp., opposed a Federal Communications Commission, suggested instead a Cabinet Department of Communications...
Sirs: . . . TIME was very nice to me-much too kind (TIME, Oct. 28). In truth, most of the credit for that press rate reduction between the U. S. and Japan should go to General Harbord of the Radio Corporation. General Harbord was the man who first made the startling suggestion of reducing the trans-Pacific press rate to ten cents a word. It was his constant insistence that finally got the Japanese government to the idea of even going him one cent better. Roy W. Howard, Chairman of the Board of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, in Japan as a delegate...