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...last week, spoke smartly-tailored Newcomb Carlton, head of Western Union Telegraph Co., to the Interstate Commerce Committee of the U. S. Senate sitting to ponder national policy on communications, nerve of trade, nerve of war. Last month Owen D. Young of Radio Corp. had told the same Senate Committee that a merger of Radio Corp.'s wireless, Western Union's cables and International Telephone & Telegraph's wireless & cables was essential (TIME, Dec. 23). Argued Mr. Young: only by such a monopoly could U. S. communications compete with such monopolistic foreign communication systems as Britain's Cables & Wireless...
...Young's argument concerning threatened British control of world-communication to which Mr. Carlton took most pointed exception. "There is no menace," said he. "It [the menace] is one of the most fantastic bogies dressed up in my experience." He described British Cables & Wireless, Ltd. as a "creaking, awkward, ponderous set-up." He said he could wish a business competitor no worse luck, than to be hooked up in such a system, maintained that his com pany and Radio Corp. "hold the British merger in the hollow of their hand...
...stiff collars to match. His feet are small and well-shod. Beneath his habitual derby hat his hair is turning thin and grey. Society is his prime diversion. Of secondary interest are motoring, sporting events, the theatre. In Washington he occupies an expensive suite of rooms at the luxurious Carlton Hotel on 16th Street. A good and frequent host himself, he accepts all invitations out, is one of the most lionized Senators in Washington. Ironic comments are sometimes heard on the contrast between his political representation and his social activities. In Senate debate which he enters frequently he is gruff...
...Packard, professor of Public Speaking, will direct the players, with Professor E. K. Rand '94, assisting. Those in the east include H. C. Friend '31, R. W. Hyde '30, M. W. Mansur '30, C. T. Murphy '31, L. F. Robinson '30, W. M. Wing '31, Carlton Green '30, Matthew Hale, Jr. '32, and F. M. Chambers...
...employment by Bethlehem]." Now Shearer said: "I have met Mr. Schwab on a number of occasions. 'The Star of Bethlehem' himself was the first to suggest that his company might employ me." He said he had conversed with Mr. Schwab in November 1926, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Manhattan...