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...controlling the common stock of the Western Electric) acquired the exclusive right to sell broadcasting transmission sets. The Radio Corporation got the right to operate trans-Atlantic radio stations and ship-to-shore communication, and to sell amateur receiving apparatus. The General Electric and the Westinghouse got the plum of manufacturing amateur receiving apparatus, 60% going to the former, 40% to the latter. This was because the General Electric owned the majority stock of the Radio Corporation and controlled important inventions...
...Democratic National Committee, 53 males and 53 females, assembled in Washington to dispose of a valuable plum, the Democratic National Convention of 1924. A debt of about $160,000 remaining from the campaign of 1920 hung over the head of 106 members. A profitable disposal of the plum was essential...
...attention lavished upon a plum...
...forcibly divorced of practically twelve thousand dollars in income tax due on capitol collected for illicit oil speculation. And Washington made known that similar steps are about to be taken against a bootleg ring which has obstinately kept its returns close. If this raid is successful the plum which falls ought to be large enough to pay for a soldiers bonus and deepen every indentation on the Atlantic Coast...
James Todd Baldwin '24 of Chestnut Hill has been appointed Freshman Tennis Manager; James Rankin Plum Nason '24 of New York, N. Y., Assostant Manager, and Leonard Field Holmes '24 of West Roxbury, Second Assistant Manager. Holmes will have charge of interdormitory tennis. These appointments are subject to the approval of the Student Council and the Athletic Committee...