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Dates: during 1920-1929
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External Monopoly: A merger of Radio's wireless, International Telephone & Telegraph's wireless and cable. Western Union's cable. (Radio would sell its wireless to I. T. & T. now if the U. S. radio law did not forbid.) Advantages:
Both monopolies Mr. Young would put under strict government regulation. He recommended that, if private enterprise were not to be trusted, then, as an alternative, the U. S. government itself should undertake the external communications monopoly. Existing laws make such mergers illegal; Mr. Young would have them quickly changed.
Hunting Tigers in India (F. D. Wilson). Commander George Dyott who went to India with the Vernay-Faunthorpe expedition talks about his trip and shows you pictures of it. His record is a good travelog, wonderfully vivid compared to the lectures which, under the same title, have been delivered since...
Visible Empire. The seeds of empire, sown the last decade of the last century, first sprouted in 1893 when 160 U. S. Marines were landed for a Hawaiian "revolution." Later the islands were annexed to put their sugar production inside the U. S. tariff wall. The Spanish War added Porto...
"If the British interpretation of the Kellogg Pact means that henceforth there shall be no neutrals," he boomed portentously, "it necessarily follows that we and all the other signatories become belligerents. Under these circumstances the pact is misnamed. It is not a peace pact. It is a war pact."