Word: sarnoffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testimony before the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, Fly indicated that the Sanders Bill would hamstring reform, and declared, "If you want to turn this vast industry over to a couple of men in New York [presumably RCA President David Sarnoff and CBS President William Paley] you can go ahead...
Last week R.K.O. had a new alumnus: its president, George Schaefer. ex-general manager of United Artists, ex-sales vice president of Paramount, resigned. Mr. Schaefer was pushed into R.K.O. in 1938 by Rockefeller Center (alias Nelson Rockefeller) and R.C.A. (alias David Sarnoff), which were both stuck with large R.K.O. holdings. The choice of a salesman to lick production and financial problems roused grave misgivings in Floyd Odium, whose Atlas Corp. was up to its ears in R.K.O. stock too, and Mr. Odium turned out to be right: the studio mess at R.K.O. was too much for able Salesman Schaefer...
Married. Esme O'Brien, 22, much photographed glamor girl of 1938; and Robert William Sarnoff, 23, Naval Reserve ensign, son of R.C.A. Chief David Sarnoff; in Washington...
...performers did their bits from Hollywood, the Secretary of the Navy and the Under Secretary of War spoke from Washington, NBC's newsmen in London, Manhattan and Buenos Aires helloed and jested by short wave. Board Chairman David Sarnoff's baronial voice came in from a liner in mid-Pacific. That moment reminded a few elders present of the night nearly 30 years ago when the same Sarnoff made his name-as the first operator to catch the primitive wireless signals and distress calls of another liner, the Titanic, as she went down...
...raid alarm for the private home, estimated price $15, was last week demonstrated by R.C.A. President David Sarnoff to Civilian Defense Director Fiorello LaGuardia. The gadget: a box the size of a portable radio which rings a bell and flashes a light when a radio warning signal is sent...