Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resounding with such adjectives as "absurd," "unjust," "impracticable," upon a prime Republican power bill. The bill dealt with a state policy of valuation of utility properties for rate-fixing purposes. Governor Roosevelt stoutly reiterated the Democratic tenet, voiced clearly before now by such Democrats as Alfred Emanuel Smith and Owen D. Young, that the rate-fixing basis should be actual cost of plants and not the replacement cost thereof...
Although there were rumors that the centralization of control would result in the formation of a new super-holding company, there was nothing on the face of the transaction to alter the positions of Radio's 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...
...Honored. Owen D. Young, with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Belgium; John Pierpont Morgan, with the Belgian Grand Cross of the Order ot Leopold...
Eugenie Leontovich in the part of a pseudo-Baroness is both vivacious and amusing. Moreover, when her real identity as a maid is discovered, she enters into the spirit of the rather vulgar domestic with equal zest. Reginald Owen as an authentic prince is thoroughly royal in the decadent sense of the word. He has his amours, his noblesse oblige, and a sense of humor that fits very well with the American conception of prince-lings on continuous leave. Alan Mowbray as Josef, the valet, is a thoroughly snobbish servant of the more malignant variety. The burden of the comedy...
...when newscolumns of the London Times or any other newspaper will be "flashed with a zip" into the U. S. or any other part of the world, is a day for which Owen D. Young, internationally-minded Board Chairman of General Electric Co., is waiting hopefully. He has been talking about the possibility ever since 1923. Last week came some fulfillment. Mr. Young's oldest son, Charles, works in the General Electric Research Laboratories at Schenectady under famed Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson. He has invented a new type automatic carbon recorder for use in conjunction with Dr. Alexanderson...