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...President Hoover honored the late Luther Burbank by approving a bill which gave the creators of new plants monopoly rights by patent. Mrs. Burbank would presumably be rich now had the plant patent law been passed during her husband's lifetime of fruit & flower invention...
...When Luther Burbank died he directed that his entire business be taken over by Stark Brothers. Later the Burbank flowers were sold to W. Atlee Burpee Co. of Philadelphia (TIME, Sept. 21). Stark Brothers retained the fruits...
Born: On a farm in Burbank, Minn...
...following professors with their wives will be in the receiving line: A. N. Holcombe '06, chairman of the Department of Government, C. H. Haring '07, chairman of the Department of History, H. H. Burbank, chairman of the Department of History, Government, and Economics, H. H. Plaskett, professor of Astrophysics, H. E. Clifford '89, Dean of the Engineering School, L. J. Henderson, chairman of the Department of History of Science, Captain B. B. Wygant, chairman of the Department of Naval Science, and J. B. Conant '13, chairman of the Department of Chemistry. J. L. Coolidge '95, chairman of the Department...
...airmailing this from Mexico City to lose no time in congratulating Mrs. Blaisdell on her censorship of "religion" as an implement of education. Had the minds of Edison, Franklin, Burbank and thousands of other original thinkers been sufficiently crippled by belief in and reliance on "divine power" and "life after death," they would have passed to the limbo of unaccomplishment with the rest of the orthodox millions...