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...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...
...Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa called at the White House office with the attorney of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. He told the President that the farmers of Iowa need money badly to move their corn crop...