Word: baird
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commandments? I think . . ." The grey-mustachioed gentleman removed from his mouth a long, black stogy, glared at his inquisitor. "Who," said he, "do you think I am?" "Why, Theodore Roberts, the movie actor," gasped the reporter. "You are mistaken, sir! My name is Cummins." Last week great grandfather Albert Baird Cummins, Senator from Iowa, for nearly two decades one of the greatest influences in the governance of the U. S. was stricken with heart disease, died suddenly. Theodore Roberts, merely a grandfather, went on living, acting. On Feb. 15, 1850, a man-child was born in Carmichaels, Pa. Waynesburg College...
...first of them is Albert Baird Cummins, venerable senex, first sent to the Senate in 1908 as a volcanic Progressive, now about as regular as any politician is likely to be in these days, a learned lawyer, devoted nowadays to judicious action...
Televisor. In London, a concern called Television Ltd. obtained licenses to retail the "televisor," a radio device invented by John L. Baird* of Glasgow that permits "looking in" as well as listening in. Broadcasting from a televisor station in London was to begin at once. The receiver, costing £30, consists of a point of light moving swiftly over a revolving field of ground glass. The motion of the point of light is governed by current received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense...
...Another television experimenter is C. Francis Jenkins, of Washington, D. C., whose "radio eye" employs a battery of mirrors (instead of Baird's revolving lenses) to break up images for photo-electric transmission (TIME, April 7, 1923; June...
...MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN - Himself and Mary Baird Bryan-Winston ($3.75). An autobiography completed by his wife...