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7/7/39
THOMPSON, HOWLAND NAMED EXECUTIVES OF ZENITH
Appointment of Sylvester T. Thompson as Vice-President and John R. Howland as Assistant to the President of Zenith Radio Corporation, Chicago, was announced this week by Commdr. Eugene F. McDonald, Jr. , President.
Mr. Thompson has been with Zenith since June, 1938, and has devoted his time largely to developing the export sales and merchandising, while Mr. Howland was formerly Assistant Secretary of the Philadelphia Storage Battery Co., Philadelphia.
For seventeen years, Mr. Thompson has been a well-known figure in the radio industry. He has watched the industry grow from the crystal set stage into the present complex state with its multiplicity of problems. He served the Radio Manufacturers’ Association as a Director and has been Chairman of its Export Committee for five years. As a member of the Executive Council of the South African Reciprocal Trade Committee, he represented the industry in its fight against propaganda detrimental to the importation of American merchandise into South Africa. For a period of fifteen years he was a member of the Society of Auto¬ motive Engineers and at present is a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers and the Re.dlo Club of America.
Prior to joining the Zenith organization, Mr. Thompson was Executive Vice-President and Director of the manufacturing subsidiary of Kolster Ra.dio Inc., and Manager of Federal Telegraph Company, both of Newark, N. J. These companies were owned and operated by the International Telephone & Telegraph Company. Sub¬ sequently, he became Vice-President, General Manager and Director of Pilot Radio Corporation, Long Island City, N. Y. , and contribut¬ ed immeasurably to the success of that company in the domestic and overseas markets.
Mr. Howland brings to his new work a well-grounded ex¬ perience in sales, patent investigation, labor matters, and public relations. He is a member of the Patents and Trademark Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers and the Trade and Commerce Bar Association of New York, p,nd a graduate of U. S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Prior to his association with the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company, Mr. Howland served as Deputy Administrator under the NRA and in that work had considerable contact with the prob¬ lems of the ra,dio industry. He administered this rather difficult and unpopular task in a courteous and diplomatic manner which retained the friendship of all those business executives with whom he came in contact.
For a number of years, Mr. Howland has served on import¬ ant committees of the Radio Manufacturers' Association and has acted as spokesman for his former employer,
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