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Generals James G. Harbord & John J. Carty (president of the Radio Corporation of America and vice-president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., respectively), last week recommended communication by a universal language, for the sake of world peace and world efficiency. General Harbord showed that embarrassment and hesitancy between individuals of different nationalities would be reduced. General Carty said that 750,000 of the total world population 1,748,000,000 now knows and uses Esperanto...
Owen D. Young, chairman of Radio Corporation of America, sailed with Mrs. Young last week for a holiday in England, and would not explain. General James G. Harbord, R. C. A.'s president, compressed his lips into silence. President Edward E. Shumaker of Victor Talking Machine Co. let a mask of diffidence hide his thoughts...
...those patent rights. The result was The Radio Corporation of America. But R. C. A. could never have been organized except for the hearty co-operation of U. S. manufacturers of radio devices. Owen D. Young of General Electric became R. C. A.'s chairman, General James Guthrie Harbord its president, David Sarnoff its managing vice president...
...become a matter of organization, of administration, of "business," that many a ranking officer of the U. S. Army has found himself invited to assume control of a great industrial enterprise, has smoothly, easily shifted over from camp to conference, from aides to stenographers. Major General James G. Harbord became president of the Radio Corp. of America; Brigadier General Albert C. Dalton became president of the Emergency Fleet Corp.; last week Major General Robert Courtney Davis, Adjutant General of the U. S. Army, announced his retirement, effective July 1, to become president of Photomaton...
...machine. Drop a quarter in the slot, the camera starts to work, out comes a strip of eight sepia photographs of the quarter-dropper, all in eight minutes. Photomaton, Inc. is backed by a syndicate of such famed figures as onetime (1913-16) Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President Harbord of the Radio Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters) and onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co. It has given every evidence of being a proverbial El Dorado to its investors. Major General Davis, soon-to-be Photomaton president, was born in Lancaster...