Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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NORMAN THOMAS New York City...
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...answer to SEC's demand that Wall Street set up brokerage banks to hold all the cash and securities of brokers' customers, the New York Stock Exchange last fortnight set up a four-man committee to formulate a plan. Chosen to head it last week was Roswell Magill, father of the New Deal's 1938 Tax Bill, Under Secretary of the Treasury from early 1937 till last year when he resigned to return to his Manhattan law practice and Columbia teaching...
...free programs from Alpine have created such a stir that General Electric Co. (licensed by Armstrong) started to make receiving sets which could be switched from commercial reception to frequency modulation. Last week these were put on sale in Newark, and this week they will be launched in New York. Price: $75 to $225. Stromberg-Carlson is also preparing to put sets on sale. Besides Alpine, two other frequency-modulating broadcasting stations (at Paxton, Mass, and Hartford, Conn.) are underway and others (Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Washington, Milwaukee) are scheduled to get going soon. And some admirers of the Armstrong system...
Dusky Prince Batoula, 44-year-old heir apparent to a native "throne" in Senegal, French West Africa, corrected last week the impression that he was going to make a Princess out of Harriet Mercer, a Harlem laundress whom he met on a recent visit to New York City. In a darkened salon of his Paris apartment His Highness, who already has four wives in Africa, told a United Press correspondent that he had offered to pay Miss Mercer's steamship fare and expenses to Paris only because he wanted her as a secretary and an English teacher...