Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readiness despite a last-minute flurry of confusion, one rainy night last week NBC dedicated its new quarters with a gala program. Bland words were spoken by NBC's President Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth, RCA's Board Chairman James Guthrie Harbord, GE's Board Chairman Owen D. Young, RCA's President David Sarnoff (speaking from London) and Sir John Reith, director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. with whom the tycoons chatted across the sea. Some 1,200 invited guests, mostly radio advertisers or their emissaries, watched and listened. All this week the scientific marvels...
Seeking Divorce, Kitty Owen Meeker, 28, daughter of U. S. Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Owen, granddaughter of the late William Jennings Bryan: William Painter Meeker, Baltimore lawyer, in Miami. Grounds: cruelty...
...they presented their case-that they get only one-tenth as much as big Eastern men's colleges-at a Manhattan luncheon. In 1932 they had their needs studied by an advisory council headed by Newton D. Baker and including Bernard Mannes Baruch, Thomas William Lament and Owen D. Young. Last week the banded seven sent their presidents West, to dine in St. Louis with friends and alumnae. They went in a distinguished phalanx-Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Marion Edwards Park, Mary Emma Woolley, Ada Louise Comstock, William Allen Neilson, Henry Noble MacCracken and Ellen Fitz Pendleton, and as dinner...
...year stay. It resembles Journey's End in having an all-male cast and a rigid youth (Philip Truex, son of Actor Ernest Truex) whose gibberings point up the venomous fortitude of the others. To forestall suspicion which might have occurred to auditors who knew that Correspondent Russell Owen of the Byrd Expedition had helped with the script and setting, the producers warned in the program that The World Waits is based on fact "in no sense other than purely creative." Commander Hartley (Blaine Cordner), an affable, scout-masterish publicity hound, is in such a glow over...
...Minister to China to become director of a school which has neither faculty nor students-the Walter Mines Page School of International Relations, offspring of Johns Hopkins. Named for the famed scholar-diplomat who was once a Johns Hopkins postgradu ate fellow, the School was founded by popular subscription. Owen D. Young chairmanned a committee to raise $1.000,000. The late Publisher Edward William Bok gave $50,000 to finance the first year. Bernard Mannes Baruch gave $250,000 for a scholarly inquiry into the relation between profiteering and the causes...