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...everyone knows, Western Union and Postal Telegraph (I.T.& T. subsidiary) are the two giants in the field. As President of the super-giant Western Union, Newcomb Carlton took up R.C.A.'s gage. Unimpressed by the wireless threat, he snapped: "The Radio Corporation has nothing we now wish to use, and if we ever need anything they have, we can get it from other sources. For the time being, at least, we will view the disposal of the Radio Corporation as an interesting scientific development...
Radio-Western Union. Last week David Sarnoff, vice president and general manager of Radio Corp., and Newcomb Carlton, president of Western Union, sailed for Europe on the Aquitania. The incident strengthened rumors concerning a Radio-Western Union merger. Chief obstacle to a union between Radio Corp. of America Communications, Inc., and the Western Union Telegraph Co. is the White Act, Federal law forbidding the merger of wire and radio companies. It is believed, however, that Radio and Western Union will soon conclude an operating agreement. Later an effort will be made to amend the White Act to permit a merger...
Died. Mrs. Josephine Winslow Carlton, wife of Western Union President Newcomb Carlton of Manhattan, onetime Buffalo socialite; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...four chief U. S. communication companies (Radio, I. T. & I., A. T. & T., Western Union). Mightier still would be a combination of any two of them. But under the White Act, U. S. cable and radio companies may not merge. Surprising, piquant, therefore, was the admission of President Newcomb Carlton of Western Union last week, that he had conferred with Chairman of the Board Owen D. Young of Radio Corp., the subject being a possible, desirable merger...
Married. Claire Luce, dancer (Follies, No Foolin'), aviatrix; and Clifford Warren Smith, stepson of President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union Telegraph Co.; in Manhattan...