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To: Steve_Seattle

Owen D. Young (October 27, 1874 - July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.

He is best known for his SRC diplomacy and for founding the Radio Corporation of America. Young founded RCA as a subsidiary of GE in 1919; he became its first chairman and continued in that position until 1929.


193 posted on 12/19/2007 6:25:16 PM PST by mware (Americans in arm chairs doing the work of the media.)
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To: mware

Thanks.


196 posted on 12/19/2007 6:30:01 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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