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...Declared Oswald F. Schuette, executive secretary of Radio Protective Association (composed of independents) : ". . . The end of the reign of terror ... !" Said Bertram James Grigsby, of Grigsby-Grunow Co. (Majestic Radio): "Extremely gratified. . . ." Press headlines proclaimed: ADMINISTRATION STARTS TRUST-BUSTING CAMPAIGN! But prompt was Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell to deny that there was "occasion for any such campaign." Indeed, the Government's petition in the Radio suit stated: "The defendants . have earnestly contended that they are doing nothing more than . . . authorized...
Asked to enumerate U. S. liberal editors of consequence, one might name Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation), Herbert David Croly (The New Republic)-and search one's mind in vain for others. Last week the little list was halved by Death, which came to Editor Croly in Santa Barbara, at the age of 61, of progressive paralysis...
General Manager Kent Cooper's address savored of a reply to Editor Oswald Garrison Villard's bitter attack on what he construed to be a shabby popularizing of the A. P. which would cause Melville E. Stone (a founder) to "turn over in his grave." Speaking about a night on a train he had spent with Founder Stone, during which Stone appeared equally at ease before a group of flagmen and a onetime premier of Canada, said General Manager Cooper...
...agency in 2 hr. 5 min. That was cheering news to A. P. men whose meeting this year lasted but a day and whose openly discussed problems were few. routine. Ot greater public interest, however, was a thoroughgoing criticism of their organization just completed in two installments by aggressive Oswald Garrison Villard. onetime (1897-1918) president of the New York Evening Post, in his Nation (pinko weekly). Under the title "The Associated Press," Editor Villard, once on the A. P. board of directors, paid due tribute to some 80,000 newsgatherers affiliated with the A. P. who "despite the relatively...
...Executive Committee Chairman Owen D. Young, or Chairman James G. Harbord or President David Sarnoff. Mr. Sarnoff said that the new arrangement would result in operating economies resulting in cheaper radio sets and tubes and that the stock transfer represented compensation for the patent and manufacturing facilities acquired. Meanwhile Oswald Schuette, executive secretary of the Radio Protective Association (anti-Radio Corp. radiomen) said that "this $6,000,000.000 monopoly was a challenge to the Department of Justice, the Federal Radio Commission and the Congress...