Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from General Electric Co. exclusive rights in the Alexanderson high-frequency alternator, which first made long-distance radio communication possible. From the Inter-Allied Conference on Radio at Paris to Manhattan went Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, U. S. N.,* talked with General Electric's Owen D. Young, pointed out that control of the Alexanderson alternator would solidify Great Britain's position as wireless dictator. Mr. Young promptly terminated negotiations with British Marconi, though in so doing he sacrificed a $5,000,000 order and his only visible customer...
Board Chairman of Radio Corp. is Owen D. Young. President of Radio Corp. is Major General James Guthrie Harbord. Active manager, busy nerve-centre of so much merging and intricacy, is David Sarnoff, Vice President and General Manager. Born in Uzlian, Minsk, Russia, on a cold winter's day in 1891, Mr. Sarnoff arrived in the U. S. in 1900. He delivered meat, sold newspapers, sang in a choir. His parents hoped he would become a rabbi. At the age of nine he had been studying the Talmud for three years. In 1906 Sarnoff Sr. died. In the same...
...hours getting the record of the disaster, the list of survivors. When Radio Corp. absorbed American Marconi, Mr. Sarnoff, the Commercial Manager, retained his position. He became General Manager in 1921, Vice President in 1922. Now he is a world figure. While his great and good friend, Owen D. Young, was formulating the famed Young Plan in Paris, he, conscientiously in the background, gave potent...
...winners of a preliminary regatta at Marlow and during the U. S. rowing season losers of only one race. Eliminating the Westminster Bank crew in the first heat, Columbia stroked to a one-length victory in the second over the Kingston Rowing Club boat, coached by R. C. Sheriff, young insurance-broker author of Journey's End, current War play. Columbia was eliminated in a windy third heat by the heavier crew of Trinity College, Cambridge...
...most disturbing features in connection with the many decadent productions that have been disported on the metropolitan stage this season . . . is the fact that they have been attended by thousands of respectable young girls, either with the sanction, or in the company of, their parents or guardians. . . . [This] indicates such a general lack of ethical, as well as thetic qualities, as makes even the most liberal minded sigh for a return of the ascetic Puritan spirit which so sternly repressed certain forms of wrongdoing. . . . When daringly salacious scenes, songs and tableaux are wildly applauded, not only by evening audiences...