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...formed. Patents owned by General Electric, Westinghouse, American Tel. & Tel. were pooled for Radio's development of receiving sets, were later "licensed" (for a royalty) to 34 receiving set manufacturers, 14 tube manufacturers. Almost immediately, the U. S. Government looked askance at these practices as possible violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Although in 1928, after prolonged investigation, the Federal Trade Commission dismissed a complaint against Radio on this score, the Department of Justice continued to hear protests from "independent" producers...
Last week, the Department filed suit under the Sherman Act against RCA in the U. S. District Court at Wilmington, Del. It charged a nationwide monopoly, asked that Radio, its affiliates and subsidiaries, be disbanded. This action followed closely on a reorganization of Radio under which 51.3% of its stock would be voted by General Electric and Westinghouse, denounced by Washington's Senator Clarence Cleveland Dill as a "$6,000,000,000 worldwide trust" (TIME, April...
...chief interest is the class history, written as a parody of the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," the work of B. B. Solomon '33. Title page drawings throughout the book have been executed by Sherman Morss '33 and R. A. B. Braggiotti...
...First Dry to the witness stand was Edwin Cornell Jameson, president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co., director of many another potent company, business partner of New Jersey's Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (this year a Wet candidate for the Senate). Mr. Jameson was the largest individual contributor ($172,800) to the Hoover campaign (TIME, April 28). Squarejawed, tightlipped, with a big dimple in his chin, Mr. Jameson has grey-fringed black hair, a close-cropped black mustache, wears sparkling pince-nez before placid grey eyes. Spruce and good looking, he refused to be photographed because, he said...
George Hughes, 41, a Negro, stood in the prisoners' box in the courthouse at Sherman, "Athens of Texas" (1920 population, 15,031), famed locally for its cultured, 95% white people, its two colleges, 27 churches, fine schools. He pleaded guilty to the charge of assaulting white Mrs. Drew Farlow, young farmer's wife. Outside in the square milled a crowd of Shermanites and thrillseekers from the environs. They knew that: 1) No matter what the prisoner said, Texas law requires a taking of testimony; 2) Mrs. Farlow, as a witness, was to be carried to the courthouse on a stretcher...