Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra hour of music will be added to the daily broadcasting schedule of the Harvard Crimson Network, starting Monday, December 3, President Martin Bookspan '47 announced last night. The revised program list will run from 7:30 o'clock to midnight...
...believed that there was a deep-rooted conflict in society between the 'producing' and 'nonproducing' classes - the farmers and laborers on the one hand, and the business community on the other. The business community was considered to hold high cards in this conflict through its network of banks and corporations, its control of education and the press, above all, its power over the state...
...Contact. Hartford had told how Elliott Roosevelt, struggling to finance his Texas State Network, Inc., a radio chain, came to him in 1939 and wanted to borrow the $200,000. He testified that Elliott came at the President's suggestion. To prove it to A. & P.'s Hartford, Elliott got the President on the telephone. Testified Hartford...
...home, President Roosevelt got into the deal again, by the minority's account; he sent the stalwart Texan Democrat. Jesse Jones, to settle the loan, on which no payments, either of interest or principal, had been made. Jones gave Hartford $4,000 and got back the Texas State Network stock that had been security for the loan...
...record, according to the minority, showed that the loan was made at a time when Congress was considering a chain-store tax that would cost A. & P. $6,625,000 annually. And it was settled by Jesse Jones at a time when the ailing Texas State Network was beginning to flourish, with signs that the stock might some day be worth the full $200,000. As it turned out, the radio chain is now a prosperous company, with Elliott's exwife, Texas-bred Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt Eidson, as its president. (She and their children...