OWEN D. YOUNG - AUTOGRAPH 1952 - HFSID 16781
Price: $180.00
OWEN D. YOUNG
Founder of RCA, Chairman of GE, global diplomat, Presidential candidate, and
planner of the SUNY system.
Signature: "Owen D. Young/1952", 4x5¾ card. Magazine Photo of Young
(brown-hued b/w, 3x4¼) affixed above signature. Owen D. Young (1874-1962)
became Chief Counsel of General Electric in 1913. When GE created a new
subsidiary, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Young became its first
chairman (1919-1929). In 1922 he assumed control of the parent corporation as
GE's President and Chairman (through 1939). The world economy of the 1920s
was beset with the twin problems of World War I debts (from the Allied Powers to
the US) and reparations (from Germany to Allied nations). These problems were
major sources of economic instability and political tension. In 1929, the
Young Plan for scaled back reparations earned Owen Young Time Magazine's Man of
the Year designation. (Unfortunately, the Plan collapsed with the onset of
the Great Depression.) Young was a candidate for the Democratic Presidential
nomination in 1932. In 1946, Young came out of retirement to head a
commission established by New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey's to plan what
became the State University of New York system. Light corner creases.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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