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...Write a letter to each bigwig saying: "You will receive in a few days an official invitation. . . . Only about 300 of these are being issued to distinguished people...
...collector for Mr. Hoover during the campaign. The matter came last week to the attention of Assistant Postmaster-General W. Irving Glover, secretary of the committee in charge of the inaugural. Mr. Glover quickly announced that Mr. Blair had no official standing. He wondered how Mr. Blair obtained the bigwig list, started an investigation...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, heavy contributor to the Republican war chest of 1920, and John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, celebrated a day of mutual goodwill. It was Father & Son Day at the Newman School in Lakewood, N. J., where Messrs. Sinclair & Raskob and many another bigwig met sons at school...
Governor Wallace Rider Farrington welcomed many a bigwig from Great Britain and the U.S. to his now contented islands, where the natives ride the waves with surf boards and where the weather is so good that nobody needs to write about it. Japanese make up the largest population group, but business is chiefly in the hands of people from...
Kodakman George Eastman had some guests-Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Michael I. Pupin, General John J. Pershing, Owen D. Young and many another bigwig-at his home in Rochester, N. Y., last week. He showed them some motion pictures in color. He told them how simple the process was. Years of complicated experiments have gone into developing the Kodacolor film, minutes of mechanical adjustment are enough to operate it. Color photography is still imperfect; not all the primary colors can be made to go into the eye of a camera and come out lifelike but such...