Word: alva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Alva Adams of Colorado shifting from one foot to the other during the Roosevelt speech at Pueblo (Mr. Adams' home town), waiting, while 15,000 people listened, to see what the President would say to help (or hinder) his renomination. Franklin Roosevelt spoke for ten minutes, praised the Royal Gorge of the Colorado River-and never once mentioned Mr. Adams. But neither did he mention Mr. Adams' opponent, old Justice Benjamin C. Hilliard, who had suddenly gone to Kansas to see a sick brother. So Mr. Adams' punishment for opposing the President's Court plan...
Three months ago, Reporter Alva Johnston appended a postscript to a routine letter to the editors of the Saturday Evening Post: "How about Jimmy R.?" To the Post Jimmy R. sounded good. The postscript became an article on James Roosevelt's thumping success in the insurance business. Last week Reporter Johnston's article (TIME, July 4), published in the Post with none of the author's charges changed or deleted, got more attention in the U. S. press than any magazine article in recent years...
...Alva Johnston gave up wrangling with high-school geometry, went to work for the Bee in his native Sacramento, Calif. Some 18 years later he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the New York Times. After 16 years with the Times and four years with the New York Herald Tribune, he began a lucrative career as a freelance writer, achieved wide renown as a frequent author of the New Yorker's Profiles...
...have gossiped about the selling exploits of James Roosevelt: how, after his father's nomination in 1932, the fortunes of his lanky eldest flowered like the lilies in paradise. This week a number of those anecdotes are told publicly in a story, "Jimmy's Got It" by Alva Johnston appearing in the anti-Roosevelt Saturday Evening Post...
Until Thomas Alva Edison tackled the problem of multiple telegraph messages, the most that could be sent over one wire at a time was two. Edison increased the number to four. Later, Western Union engineers developed the "Multiplex" system which enabled them to transmit four communications simultaneously in each direction. "Voice carrier" currents of different frequencies, in Multiplex groups of four, recently made possible 32 messages in each direction over a four-wire circuit. Last week, Western Union announced that an electrical tone generator borrowed from a musical instrument had tripled the figure...