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...Black Chamber," America's first codebreaking agency founded in 1919, and its head, Herbert Yardley: "When Herbert Hoover took control of the White House and named Henry L. Stimson secretary of state, the existence of the Black Chamber remained secret even to the incoming administration...After a few months had passed, Yardley decided that Stimson had settled in well enough to be informed and provided the secretary of state with a handful of decrypted Japanese messages...Outraged, he famously exclaimed, 'Gentlemen do not read each other's mail,' and sought to immediately shut down Yardley's operation...
...Modern Man," his late-career masterpiece in which he boils every 21st century buzzword into a dazzling three-minute rant ("I've been uplinked and downloaded; I've been inputted and outsourced: I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading...."), Jon Stewart simply shakes his head in something close to awe: "Just the most amazing mind, that...
...been in the media industry as long as almost any man alive, said the online display advertising at his company, IACI (IACI), might be down as much as 50% this month. Disney (DIS) reported that its interactive business lost money in the final quarter of last year. The head of advertising sales at TIME Warner's (TWX) AOL internet unit was replaced, probably a reasonable sign that revenue is under-performing there...
FINRA was created in July 2007 through the consolidation of NASD and the member regulation, enforcement and arbitration functions of the New York Stock Exchange. The former chairman of FINRA, Mary Schapiro, is now the new head of the SEC, selected by President Obama and approved by the Senate Banking Committee last month...
...Daschle, Barack Obama’s now-withdrawn nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services and the new White House Office of Health Reform, should have paid his taxes. It is the right thing to do, of course, and the fact that a man of his intelligence could not file a tax return properly—or that a man of his wealth could not afford a good accountant—is puzzling...