David Sarnoff (Freemason, Scottish Rite)
Titanic Radio was Marconi. Marconi Radio Operator on the night of the Titanic Sank. Radio / TV Executive.
9 Jun 2020, Washington Post - Government moves to block removal of telegraph [Marconi] from Titanic by Rachel Weiner.[10]
Working well into his seventies, Sarnoff continued to push RCA and its engineers, investing money and work-hours in computers and aerospace technology. The man who came to America during the infancy of radio lived to see photographs delivered electronically from space to Earth in satellites his company had made.[4]
During Cold War and Pre Vietnam escalation - 2 Jun 1960 - NY Times, National Purpose: Sarnoff Program - Renewed Dedication of Traditions Urged in Fighting Communism “… the struggle between communism and freedom. If revitalized, redefined for our times and translated into great decisions, they could turn the tides of conflict in our favour … The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Report on United States Foreign Policy - prepared by a panel of which I [Sarnoff] was a member and published last year - put it this way: The United States at its best has always seen its national life as an experiment in liberty …[Americans] have known that the hopes of the world were, in some measure, bound up with their success … Whenever [the United States] has wielded effective power in the world, its ideals and its moral convictions have played a vital part in its decisions. Whenever, on the contrary, the United States has tried to act without morale conviction, or in ways thath went counter to its basic beliefs, it has foudn itself inhibited and has ultimately had to rechart its course … Ideas and ideals are thus to the United States an essential element of reality…Why the shrinking from lofty goals for all mankind in favor of the safe, the compromising, or mere survival ? The east answer - that it is all due to the advent of terrible new weapons - will hardly do. The calender refutes it: the retreat began before those weapons were forged and grew more panicky during the time when American had a monopoly on the atom bomb. It was precisely in the years before Soviet Russia produced the bomb that communism scords its greatest gains, and it did so almost always by the default of the free world.[8]
Research The Best Enemy Money Can Buy by Antony C. Sutton and Lend-Lease programme which included from 1942 the illegal shipment of nuclear plans and technology to Russia.[11]
From 1959, Board member of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
1950, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the colour television standard developed by the Columbia Broadcasting System. However, existing black-and-white sets including those of RCA would not be able to receive colour programs. Sarnoff had committed RCA to developing a set that would be compatible with both black-and-white and colour images, but the RCA system was still not ready. Sarnoff initiated a crash program to develop the compatible system, and in 1953 RCA’s system was adopted as the standard for colour television by the FCC. Sarnoff became chairman of the board in 1949 and retired in 1970.[4]
1929 - Stock market crash ruined RCA’s stock price and the assets of Chairman Owen Young. Likely as a result, Young stepped down as chair in favor of President Harbord. Sarnoff, who had gotten out of the stock market before the crash, was elected as RCA’s third president on January 3, 1930.[3]
1928 - Sarnoff proposed the takeover of the Victor Talking Machine Company. This deal, which turned RCA into a manufacturing power in its own right, was delayed as Sarnoff spent five months in Europe as Young’s assistant on the Committee of Experts, which had been formed to address the German war reparations crisis that was crippling the German economy. He played a key, although then unnoticed, role in the protracted negotiations that resulted in the celebrated “Young Plan.” [3] [Research John Foster Dulles]
As RCA’s fortunes, and stock price, soared upwards in the mid to late 1920s, Sarnoff proved his adroitness as a negotiator. In 1926, after a complex dispute between AT&T and RCA over radio broadcasting, he successfully negotiated a deal resulting in the creation of NBC in 1926.[3]
Early 1920s - By this time, RCA was faced with mounting public opposition to its patent monopoly, as well as the difficultly of enforcing its patent rights. In late 1923, Sarnoff proposed, and persuaded RCA to implement, the idea of providing patent licenses to other companies for a small percentage of the retail cost of the product.
1922 - Made a Vice-President, Sarnoff was passed over in favor of General James G. Harbord as successor to President Nally at the beginning of 1923. However, Harbord’s lack of subject knowledge and hands-off management style prevented any conflict with his hard-driving subordinate. The result was that Sarnoff was increasingly responsible for the strategic operations of RCA, as well as its day-to-day management.
Sarnoff became a promoter of having RCA expand into the domestic field in opposition to President Nally and others who wanted to stick to international communications. Chairman Owen D. Young [General Electric. Young Plan contributes WW2] sided with Sarnoff and subsequently made him lead the negotiations with AT&T, Westinghouse, and the United Fruit Company to create the RCA patent pool. This success, as well as Sarnoff’s increasingly close relationship with Young, resulted in his appointment as general manager in 1921. Barely two months later, he signaled his view of RCA’s future by orchestrating the famous broadcast of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight.[3]
WW1 - 1917 - When the Marconi Company established a Commercial Department, Sarnoff was appointed as its manager. He was still in that position when the Marconi Company became part of the new Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in 1919.[3]
1915, Sarnoff wrote his famous “Radio Music Box” memo to Nally, which represented a revolutionary shift in the conception of radio. Rather than seeing wireless as a means for one-to-one communication, he imagined it as one-to-many. However, it would not be until the early 1920s that Sarnoff was in a position to implement his ideas.[3]
The experienced cable executive Edward J. Nally became the Marconi Company’s general manager in 1914. Unfamiliar with the wireless side of operations, he relied heavily on the expertise of his energetic and ambitious deputy. Before the year was out, Sarnoff had added the title of contract manager to his position.[3]
Late 1912, Sarnoff was promoted to radio inspected for the New York District and became an instructor at the Marconi Institute. Within a year he was made chief radio inspector and assistant chief engineer for the entire company.[3]
14 April 1912 - He led two other operators at the Wanamaker station in an effort to confirm the fate of the Titanic.**[4] Sarnoff later exaggerated his role as the sole hero who stayed by his telegraph key for three days to receive information on the Titanic’s survivors and then in trying to get their names from the Marconi Seagate station before the Carpathia arrived with the survivors in New York City.[7]
His actions at the telegrapher’s station following the sinking earned him considerable cache within the confines of Marconi Wireless.[4]
The carefully manipulated Sarnoff legend places young Davey at the telegraph, the first to hear news of the Titanic’s sinking. More likely, Sarnoff rushed to the telegraph after learning about the accident from newspaper vendors. But there is no disputing that he sent and received wireless messages for seventy-two straight hours, gathering names of survivors as anxious relatives of Titanic passengers congregated on the streets below. Sarnoff impressed his superiors with his persistence and ambition. A promotion soon followed.[4]
Died 12 Dec 1971, from Not Known. Age 80
[1] - FYI - Wiki - David Sarnoff (Freemason)
[2] - Britannica.com - David Sarnoff (Freemason)
[3] - Hagley.com - Who was David Sarnoff (Freemason)
[4] - PBS.org - About David Sarnoff (Freemason)
[5] - Radiohof.org - David Sarnoff (Freemason)
[6] - See [4]
[12] = The Best Enemy Money Can Buy by Antony C. Sutton
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