Word: swope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Columbia Broadcasting System was worth more than ten million last week nobody seemed to doubt. At first competitive bidders but finally fellow stock-holders with President Paley were Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., Lehman Corp., Field, Glore & Co. and Herbert Bayard Swope. Columbia's gross business in 1931 was $11,000,000. It owns five stations outright, has 91 affiliates, is the world's largest radio broadcasting system...
...against $750,000 in 1930 despite a 4% drop in sales volume. The showing delighted Broker Edward F. Hutton, chairman of the board, who is said to regard Zonite as his "pet company." It also pleased such directors as Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Colby M. Chester Jr., Herbert Bayard Swope and Hunter Sylvester Marston...
...fellow countrymen, well aware of Miss Addams' notable welfare work in Chicago (President Gerard Swope of General Electric, ex-Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada have worked at Hull House) are not accustomed to thinking of her as internationally-minded. But she has long been an enthusiast for the World Court and League of Nations. She refused to take any part in War work, was a pilgrim on Henry Ford's "Peace Ship." When she won the Pictorial Review's $5,000 award this year, her interest in world peace was mentioned, as well as Hull...
Birthdays. General August von Mackensen (82); Dr. William Temple Hornaday (77); Lord Jellicoe (72); Edward Hugh Sothern (72); William Crapo Durant (70); Robert Patterson Lament (64); Joseph Leiter (63); Gerard Swope (59); Newton Diehl Baker (60); Arthur Atwater Kent (58); Winston Churchill (57); Frank Jay Gould...
Publishers of Gentle Reader are Music Critic Samuel Chotzinoff, editor of the magazine, and Managing Editor Richard Manson. Literary editor is Author John Erskine, with whom are associated Lloyd Morris as reviewer of fiction, Byron Steel of biography. Staff writers advertised: Herbert Bayard Swope, politics; Percy Hammond, theatre; Richard Watts Jr., cinema; William Cotton, art; Mary Watkins, dancing...