Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edmund Albert Chester, Sr. - (June 22, 1897 October 14, 1973) - was a senior Vice President and executive at the CBS radio and television networks during the 1940s. He also served as a highly respected journalist and Bureau Chief for Latin America at Associated Press and Vice President at La Prensa Asociada in the 1930s. During the course of a journalistic career which ranged over two decades, he assumed a central role in the development of a viable international radio transmission network linking the United States of America with the developing nations of South America and Central America for the CBS network from 1940 through 1949.