The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

In 1929, RCA purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs ( including the famous " Victrola ") and phonograph records.

Although the RCA Thereminvox ( released immediately following the Stock Market Crash of 1929 ), was not a commercial success, it fascinated audiences in America and abroad.

RCA sold its stake in EMI in 1935, but due to its earlier takeover of the Victor label in 1929, RCA retained the North and South American rights to the " Nipper " trademark.

Stock and the CSO made numerous recordings for Columbia Records and the Victor Talking Machine Company, renamed RCA Victor in 1929.

Toscanini also recorded with the New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall for RCA Victor in 1929 and 1936.

In 1926, Johnson sold his controlling ( but not holding ) interest in Victor to the banking firm of Seligman & Spyer, who in 1929 sold to the Radio Corporation of America, which then became known as the Radio-Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America later RCA Victor.

The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America ( later renamed RCA Corporation ), which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.

In 1929, Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs ( including the famous " Victrola ") and phonograph records ( in British English, " gramophone records ").

In 1929, Victor was purchased by RCA.

The Berliner name as a record label lasted longest in Canada, until 1924 when it was bought out by USA's Victor, becoming RCA Victor in 1929.

Ironically, Emile Berliner died in 1929, the same year RCA bought out Victor, and Edgar Berliner resigned the following year.

Young founded RCA as a subsidiary of General Electric in 1919 ; he became its first chairman and continued in that position until 1929.

In the mid-twentieth century, the majority of large recording companies manufactured both gramophones and records ; Philips CEO Anton Philips noted the risk in creating gramophones without an interest in music recording and record manufacture, and that Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) had merged with the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1929 for this reason.

* Owen D. Young, LLB 1896, founder of RCA, 1929 Time Magazine's Man of the Year Chairman and CEO of General Electric

Sholes started work at RCA Victor as a messenger boy in 1929 and worked part time for the firm while a student at Rutgers University.

Marvin Hatley had served as the music director of Hal Roach Studios since 1929, and RCA employee Leroy Shield joined the company as a part-time musical director in mid 1930.

United Fruit had come increasingly to dominate the trade, and in 1929 it bought out the Cuyamel Fruit Company, one of its two principal remaining rivals.

In March 1929, General Motors ( GM ), impressed by Opel's modern production facilities, bought 80 % of the company, increasing this to 100 % in 1931.

In 1929, Warner Bros bought the St. Louis-based theater chain Skouras Brothers.

Also in 1929 Dr. Michael Shadid created a health plan in Elk City, Oklahoma in which farmers bought shares for $ 50 to raise the money to build a hospital.

HWT bought a controlling stake in The Advertiser of Adelaide in 1929.

A large retail outlet, Temple's B & O Cash Store, shipped merchandise nationwide, before being bought by Sears and Roebuck in 1929 and later closed in 1954.

In 1929, Fairey Aviation bought of land just southeast of Heathrow hamlet, to establish an airfield for flight testing ; later purchases gradually enlarged this airfield to about.

* 1929: Fairey Aviation bought the first of several plots of land west of Cain's Lane and there started the Great West Aerodrome.

Martha Mills, a manufacturer of tire cord fabric, began operation in 1927 and ceased operations in 2006 ( Martha Mills was bought by B. F. Goodrich in 1929, and later WesTek in 2008 ).

Duncan bought the rights to the design in 1929.

A town the size of DeWitt was not really big enough to support two competing newspapers, and when the New Era's editor died, Henderson bought it and merged the two papers in 1929.

The township got its name from the son of a 19th century glass factory owner, William Coffin, Sr., who bought large tracts of timber in Camden County about six miles west of Hammonton and with his son-in-law in 1929.

In 1929 the Maryland firm of Sharpe & Dohme bought out H. K.

In 1929 or 1930, Grover Hedrick bought Ritter Lumber Co. and had the community name changed to “ Glen Hedrick .” The residents petitioned the federal government for another name change and finally, the community was officially named Beaver in 1939.

A private individual built it by 1816 so that local people could worship Jesus as depicted as Esquipulas ; preservationists bought it and handed it over to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in 1929.

In 1929, a local private company bought the land at Léger's Corner airstrip and through the years two runways were constructed as well as structures for aircraft maintenance.

In 1929 Eastbourne bought of land surrounding Beachy Head to save it from development at a cost of about £ 100, 000.

*, a gunboat bought in England 1898, originally built as Diogenes by Howaldtswerke in Kiel and in periodic use until 1929.

Edwin Simandl, a promoter in Orange, New Jersey ; bought the defunct franchise for the 1929 season and used it to promote his decades-old Orange Tornadoes to the major leagues.

Elisabeth moved to the Hütteldorf district of Vienna and bought a villa in 1929, where she lived with Petznek for the next twenty years.

Years later, just after his son Nelson, as Governor of New York State, helped foil a bid by greenmailer Saul Steinberg to take over Chemical Bank, Steinberg bought Junior's apartment for $ 225, 000, $ 25, 000 less than it had cost new in 1929.

In 1929 the newspaper came under the control of the Kreuger family, when a majority of the shares was bought by Swedish Match, at that time the heart of Ivar Kreuger's corporate empire.

* 1929 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor ( d. 2012 )

Pioneering work on the structure and evolution of the larynx was carried out in the 1920s by the British comparative anatomist Victor Negus, culminating in his monumental work The Mechanism of the Larynx ( 1929 ).

* 1929 – 1941: Victor Le Gorgeu

Negotiations for the settlement of the Roman Question began in 1926 between the government of Italy and the Holy See, and culminated in the agreements of the Lateran Pacts, signed — the Treaty says — for King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy by Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister and Head of Government, and for Pope Pius XI by Pietro Gasparri, Cardinal Secretary of State, on February 11, 1929.

Additional Toscanini recordings with the Philharmonic, all for Victor, took place on Carnegie Hall's stage in 1929 and 1936.

* Victor Fontan ( 1892 – 1982 ), cyclist who led the 1929 Tour de France

The impasse was resolved in 1929 by the Lateran Treaties negotiated by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini between King Victor Emmanuel III and Pope Pius XI.

He was appointed senator by King Victor Emmanuel III in 1929, but he refused to take his seat and never took part in the workings of the Assembly.

Robert Wilkins was first recorded by Victor in Memphis in 1928, and Big Joe Williams and Garfield Akers also in Memphis ( 1929 ) by Brunswick / Vocalion.

In 1928 Autry was singing on Tulsa ’ s radio station KVOO as " Oklahoma's Yodeling Cowboy ," and the Victor archives shows an October 9, 1929, entry stating that the vocal duet of Jimmie Long and Gene Autry with two Hawaiian guitars, directed by L. L. Watson, recorded “ My Dreaming of You ” ( Matrix 56761 ) and “ My Alabama ” ( Matrix 56762 ).

The Victor Talking Machine Company ( 1901 – 1929 ) was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time.

Toscanini made his first Victor electrical recordings with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1929.