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Every time Powel Crosley Jr. gets sidetracked, he builds the side line into a main line. Having built five main lines, he appeared last week about ready to shunt into a sixth...
...Powel Sr. wanted Powel Jr. to follow him into law. But young Crosley liked to tinker with automobiles. By 1906 he was a private chauffeur (although his father was a prosperous attorney). By 1909, at 23, he was president of an automobile manufacturing company. It was his idea to make a low-priced, six-cylinder car, but bad financing wrecked the venture and for eleven years he drifted from job to job, automobiles to advertising to gadgets...
...From his own profession, advertising, came the first nomination of Representative Bruce Barton of Manhattan for President of the U. S. In Advertising & Selling, Publicist Harford Powel quoted Mr. Barton's vigorous advice to Indiana's Republican State Convention that Republicans must again win the confidence of all classes of people (TIME. July 11). Said Publicist Powel: "He is the only man in politics with a radio voice that you could back against the voice of President Roosevelt. . . . The grand strategy, if you want to beat the New Deal, is to find a man who can deserve...
Four years ago the Federal Radio Commission (now the Federal Communications Commission) encouraged an experiment. That experiment, and its results so far, have landed FCC in a tough spot. Under a six-month experimental license the Commission gave Powel Crosley Jr. the right to raise the broadcasting power of his Cincinnati station (WLW) from the U. S. maximum of 50,000 watts to 500,000 watts. Reason: to find out how much radio service the listener might gain (from the power boost) and lose (through interference with smaller stations). Enterprising Broadcaster Crosley spent $396,287 on his 500-kw. transmitter...
...contract which still had a year to run, signed a new one for five years upping his salary to a reported $40,000 a year, highest current in the major leagues. One day last week Manager Charles Dressen of the Cincinnati Reds quietly walked into the office of Owner Powel Crosley Jr., quietly walked out again without any contract at all. It was no coincidence that the Giants had just slipped into first place in the National League and the Reds had just slumped into last place. With both major leagues entering the home stretch of their pennant races...