Sarnoff's tenacity and intelligence were able to negotiate an outcome where RCA was no longer partly owned by Westinghouse and General Electric, giving him final say in the company's affairs.

After nine years of Zworykin's hard work, Sarnoff's determination, and legal battles with Farnsworth ( in which Farnsworth was proved in the right ), they had a commercial system ready to launch.

* July 7 – At David Sarnoff's request for an experiment of RCA's electronic television technology, NBC's first attempt at actual programming is a 30-minute variety show featuring speeches, dance ensembles, monologues, vocal numbers, and film clips.

Although a cousin's sympathetic biography earned Sarnoff's approval, there is not yet an objective, scholarly biography — one which documents its sources and draws on multiple archives.

New York: HarperCollins 10-ISBN 0-06-018215-6 ; 13-ISBN 978-0-06-018215-1 ( cloth ) 10-ISBN 0-06-098119-9 ; 13-ISBN 978-0-06-098119-8 -- Profiles Sarnoff's life along with those of Edwin Armstrong and Lee De Forest, drawing on archival sources.

-- A useful one-volume compendium of Sarnoff's writings, covering his views on innovation, broadcasting, monopoly rights and responsibilities, freedom, and future electronic innovations.

In the early 1920s Armstrong drove off with Sarnoff's secretary, Marion MacInnes, in a French sports car.

Armstrong married Sarnoff's secretary, Marion McInnis, in December 1922.

Under Robert Sarnoff's leadership, RCA diversified far beyond electronics and communications, in a broader American corporate trend toward " conglomerates.

Yet Sarnoff's affiliates were mistrustful of him.

Sarnoff is credited with Sarnoff's law, which states that the value of a broadcast network is proportional to the number of viewers.

She and the curator of Sarnoff's papers found a previously mis-filed 1916 memo that did mention Sarnoff and a " radio music box scheme " ( the word " scheme " in 1916 usually meant a plan ); Benjamin wrote a follow-up article about Sarnoff and the radio music box in 2002.

By the spring of 1922 Sarnoff's prediction of popular demand for broadcasting had come true, and over the next eighteen months, he gained in stature and influence.

Sarnoff's anticipated that post-war America would need an international radio voice explaining its policies and positions.

It was Sarnoff's good luck that the Hermants just happened to become one of his mother's neighbors.

The NBC vice president complied with Sarnoff's request.

David Sarnoff's first cousin was Eugene Lyons, U. S. journalist and writer.

* The David Sarnoff Library, a library and museum open to the public containing many historical items from David Sarnoff's life was located in Princeton Junction, NJ.

10-ISBN 0-8129-0672-1 ( cloth ) -- A thoughtful biography by an early associate of Sarnoff's.

Leaders who demonstrate persistence, tenacity, determination, and synergistic communication skills will bring out the same qualities in their groups.

Following his death, the Minnesota Twins created the Bob Allison Award for the Twins player who exemplifies determination, hustle, tenacity, competitive spirit and leadership both on and off the field.

The famous Spurs match in particular demonstrated Walsh's skill, tenacity and determination, orchestrating the destruction of Spurs in an unforgettable afternoon.

Although the book addresses many different issues — poverty, alcoholism, lying, etc .-- its main theme is the need for tenacity: the determination to rise above difficult circumstances.

The award recognizes a player who has consistently demonstrated sportsmanship through tenacity, determination and fair play on the field over the course of the regular season.

He was the chief plenipotentiary at the abortive congress of Durovicha, which met in 1664, to terminate the Russo-Polish War ( 1654-1667 ); he negotiated the Truce of Niemieża and it was due in no small measure to his superior ability and great tenacity of purpose that Russia succeeded in concluding with Poland the advantageous Truce of Andrusovo ( 1667 ).

His tenacity was responsible for the U. S. Navy's acquisition of surrendered German U-boats after World War I to learn the details of the technical innovations incorporated in the erstwhile enemy craft.

At the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence, he distinguished himself by his courage, tenacity and skill as a partisan leader in the fighting in western Greece, and was conspicuous in the defence of Missolonghi during the first siege of the city ( 1822 – 1823 ).

When explaining his success as a fast bowler, Trueman always maintained that he was " blessed by two things from birth ": the " Trueman tenacity " and the " perfect physique for a fast bowler ".

Wehler has asserted that the effects of the traditional power elite in maintaining power up to 1945 " and in many respects even beyond that " took the form of :" a penchant for authoritarian politics ; a hostility toward democracy in the educational and party system ; the influence of preindustrial leadership groups, values and ideas ; the tenacity of German state ideology ; the myth of the bureaucracy ; the superimposition of caste tendencies and class distinctions ; and the manipulation of political antisemitism ".

But, although Molinos's system did not long survive him, he had at least the double merit of courage and tenacity.

While rubber is still used in textile manufacturing, its low tenacity limits its use in lightweight garments because latex lacks resistance to oxidizing agents and is damaged by aging, sunlight, oil, and perspiration.

In situations in which Uruguayans display bravery in the face of overwhelming odds, the expression " garra charrúa " ( Charrúan tenacity ) is used to refer to victory in the face of certain defeat.

Though his adversary towered over him, Lt. Trippe used his own agility and tenacity to emerge victorious in a desperate hand-to-hand struggle.

Martin was a committed anti-Communist, but he seriously underestimated the severity of the South Vietnamese situation, to the point that in the spring of 1975, when most American officials were convinced that South Vietnam was doomed to collapse, he continued to believe that Saigon and the Mekong Delta area could be held because of the tenacity of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN ) in the Battle of Xuan Loc under the command of General Le Minh Dao.

They understood that no other senator possessed Robinson's tenacity and influence, however, so they accepted his leadership, infuriating as it could be.

It was a stereotypical view of all northern " barbarians " and could represent a fearful impression of the Illyrians and their tenacity after fighting them.

But it was his eternal vigilance, his keen eye and a mind that could move and anticipate, which were his assets, plus his Yorkshire realism and his Yorkshire tenacity of character.

can be written without an acknowledgment that whatever of justice and freedom and progress was accomplished by the Spanish-American war was due to the enterprise and tenacity of yellow journalists, many of whom lie in unremembered graves.

Stefan de Vrij would be taking up the vacant spot for captain, considering his time and experiences with Feyenoord, making Jordy Clasie, who because of his good play and tenacity soon became one of the most popular players among the supporters, vice-captain.

" He allowed innumerable abuses to grow up in the army … He kept his command, though almost in his dotage, with a tenacity that cannot be too much censured ".

That tenacity carried over to other areas in North America ; within four years, with the Treaty of Paris, most of France's possessions in eastern North America would be ceded to Great Britain.

Originally the soul is possessed of or is an immense variety of powers, faculties or forces ( conceptions which Beneke, in opposition to Herbart, holds to be metaphysically justifiable ), differing from one another only in tenacity, vivacity, receptivity and grouping.

Any formed faculty does not cease to exist on the removal of its stimulus ; in virtue of its fundamental property, tenacity, it sinks back as a trace ( Spur ) into unconsciousness, whence it may be recalled by the application to it of another stimulus, or by the attraction towards it of some of the movable elements or newly formed original powers.

Gurkhas were thought to be a martial race because they were considered to be naturally warlike and aggressive in battle to possess qualities of courage, loyalty, self sufficiency, physical strength, resilience, orderliness, to be able to work hard for long periods of time and to fight with tenacity and military strength.

On April 29, 2010, the National Hockey League Players ' Association announced that the award would be reintroduced as the Ted Lindsay Award to honor Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay for his skill, tenacity, leadership, and role in establishing the original Players ' Association.

Ibrahim displayed great energy and tenacity, sharing all the hardships of his army, and never allowing himself to be discouraged by failure.

Disengagement proved to be a challenge ; it was only the tenacity of the New Zealanders and nightfall which saved them from certain capture.

Gascoigne, having already received a yellow card during England's 1 – 0 victory over Belgium in the second round, showed his tenacity again as he fouled Thomas Berthold and was booked, which meant that he would be suspended for the World Cup Final if England won the match.

* Tenacity: weak fiber with breaking tenacity of 1. 2 to 1. 4 g / d ; rapidly loses strength when wet ; must be dry cleaned

On April 29, 2010, the NHL Players ' Association announced that the Lester B. Pearson Award would be reintroduced as the Ted Lindsay Award for his skill, tenacity, leadership, and role in establishing the original Players ' Association.

Even in 2009, sisu is so important to being Finnish that " to be a real Finn " you must have it: " willpower, tenacity, persistency.

In the dossier, which was received poorly by Sir George Mounsey, the Foreign Office assistant under-secretary-who believed that it did not gel with Britain's then contemporary policy of appeasement-Sinclair described Hitler as possessing the characteristics of " fanaticism, mysticism, ruthlessness, cunning, vanity, moods of exaltation and depression, fits of bitter and self-righteous resentment ; and what can only be termed a streak of madness ; but with it all there is a great tenacity of purpose, which has often been combined with extraordinary clarity of vision.

He will always be remembered for his tenacity and sportsmanship.

" The slender delicate palpi, with the fury of starved serpents, quivered a moment over her head, then as if instinct with demoniac intelligence fastened upon her in sudden coils round and round her neck and arms ; then while her awful screams and yet more awful laughter rose wildly to be instantly strangled down again into a gurgling moan, the tendrils one after another, like great green serpents, with brutal energy and infernal rapidity, rose, retracted themselves, and wrapped her about in fold after fold, ever tightening with cruel swiftness and savage tenacity of anacondas fastening upon their prey.

The unique combination of pioneering aviation and pioneering development of the country resulted in many outstanding examples of heroism, skill, tenacity, courage, wisdom, and luck, and many great stories to be told.

His strength and tenacity earned MacDonnell the soubriquet " The Bengal Tiger "; a colleague observed: " If Antony and another are cast away in an open boat and only one of them can live, it will not be Antony who is eaten.

Methodology, skill, patience, and tenacity was to be supplied by the tradesman.