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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week great Radio Corporation of America, with its swarm of subsidiaries, was fighting for its life before the Federal Radio Commission. After years of industrial supremacy this Goliath of the air had been driven back against the wall by a little David called the Radio Protective Association ("Against Radio Monopoly"). At stake were 1,403 Federal licenses whereunder RCA's National Broadcasting Co. Inc., RCA Communications Inc., Radiomarine Corp. of America and RCA-Victor Co. Inc., did business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: RPA v. RCA | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...footer and soccer.- Hardy youngsters may join the Eton Beagles and hunt hares on foot-a sport which last February the British League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports protested (TIME. Feb. 9). Everyone at Eton looks forward to St. Andrew's Day (Nov. 30) when the famed Wall Game takes place between teams representing Eton's 70 scholarship students, the Collegers (called "Tugs" from their traditional toga-like garments of black broadcloth) and the Oppidans (the rest of the students). The Wall Game is played with a football the size of a grapefruit against a long wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beside Windsor | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...David Langhorne Astor and Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor; Viscounts Chelsea and Northland; Earl of Shrewsbury. Eton's many celebrated graduates include: 17 British Prime Ministers (Harrow has six including Lord Peel, Lord Palmerston and .Stanley Baldwin), Lord Roberts, Viscount Byng, Marquis Curzon, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Major General Corn wall is, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Novelist Henry Fielding, Poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher, Edmund Waller, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley (but George Gordon Lord Byron was a Harrovian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beside Windsor | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...Wall & William Streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...Wall & Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

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