Word: bournemouth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rev. Frederick William MacDonald, 86, Wesleyan divine of Bournemouth, England, uncle to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Poet Rudyard Kipling, the late Painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones; in Bournemouth...
Soon obliging Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, beloved and industriously charitable wife of the Prime Minister, produced a broadly political and deeply feminine opinion: "A woman Labor leader at Bournemouth declared, the other day, that the Socialist party is out for power. I fancy that we Conservative women want something which is higher than power. We want peace and goodwill, and we shall never get it from a party that preaches power and warfare...
Developments. The annual British Trades Union Congress met last week at Bournemouth and went on record by a sizable majority against future employment of the "general strike" weapon by British labor. A feature of the meeting was the announcement that Russian trades unionists will contribute 1,000,000 more rubles ($500,000) to the support of the coal strike...
...citizen of Bournemouth, England, went to Cardiff on a business trip, had a heart seizure. Immediately he telephoned to his Bournemouth doctor. Then he marched to a Cardiff radio station, arranged to have his heart beats broadcast during the interval of a morning program. The Bournemouth physician listened in, telephoned treatment...
...first organized attempt at broadcasting programs from England to the U. S. last week was only a partial success, apparently because of atmospheric interference. Eight high-powered British stations (at London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Glasgow, Aberdeen) were linked up by telephone into a "super-radio" system having a maximum energy of twelve kilowatts, operated from the Hotel Savoy, London, A program of band music and a speech by Senator Guglielmo Marconi was broadcasted. But very few Americans, amateurs or professionals, were able to receive the English program at all, and of the scattered...