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...Harvard chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will visit the Baird Television Laboratories in Boston on an inspection trip tonight. Transportation from the Engineering School will probably be provided. The party will leave at 7 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Television Trip | 1/12/1932 | See Source »

...when he took office last year: make the magazine less funny. There is little of the dentist-office jokebook about the new Life. Its features are presented in full page units. More and longer articles and better drawings are the order. Contributors include Montague Glass, Sam Hellman, Ely Culbertson, Baird Leonard ("Mrs. Pepys' Diary"), Jefferson Machamer. Jack Kofoed (Sports), Artist Frederic G. Cooper (covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Life by the Month | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Married. John Logic Baird, 42, Scottish "Father of Television," managing director of Baird Television Ltd.; and Margaret Cecilia Albu, 24. British concert pianist; in Coney Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 23, 1931 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...nominee for Governor. He was the third man in the State's long history to be twice elected Governor. He ran up the biggest majority for the governorship ever recorded there. Amassing 740,605 votes, he carried all but four of 21 counties. His Republican opponent, bald, chunky David Baird Jr.. onetime Senator (by appointment), polled 501,226 votes, despite the fact that Ambassador Walter Evans Edge came home from France to flap his elbows on the stump for the party nominee, plead for a "Hoover victory." For the first time since 1913, when Thomas Woodrow Wilson became President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Off-Year Votes | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...jubilate out loud. They were well aware that if they started partisan hurrahing now, they would drive Democratic votes in Congress away when they would be needed next December. Outside of Washington Republicans were not thus careful to stifle their delight. In New Jersey last week David Baird Jr., onetime Senator and now Republican nominee for Governor, made a speech which accurately foreshadowed the Republican campaign note on the mora torium. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Effects of a Holiday | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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