Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gashouse is what old Tammanyites call New York's 16th Congressional District, a long, jagged strip of Manhattan Island that touches Park Avenue, stretches across proletarian jungles under roaring elevated lines and brings up at the piers of the murky East River. There lived and reigned such Tammany greats as Richard Croker and Boss Charles Murphy and in the Gashouse stands Tammany Hall itself. There today live some of Manhattan's poorest and some of its richest, for just uptown from the East River gas tanks that gave the district its name, the rich have built a riverside...
Officials of the T.U.C. and Labor Party joined in a resolution warning Germany to keep out of Czechoslovakia, demanding that Neville Chamberlain call Parliament in extraordinary session to stiffen British policy against the Nazis. But British Labor was not willing to deny support to stodgy Prime Minister Chamberlain. T.U.C. refused to condemn the Prime Minister by refusing him cooperation in Rearmament, decided that Labor will cheerfully continue to earn high wages building British armaments. Cold also was T.U.C. to dire warnings by Delegate J. C. Little of the Amalgamated Engineering Union that in piling up arms under Chamberlain, Labor...
From 6 p. m. till sunrise one night last week the air waves below the commercial broadcast band crackled busily with the call "CQ Conn." For most of the 22,000 amateur radio operators enrolled in the American Radio Relay League were devoting the night to sentiment, reverting to old-time amateur relay methods for the dedi cation of the League's Maxim Memorial Station WIAW (Newington, Conn.). Al though most league members now have power enough to reach WIAW direct, they relayed their dedicatory messages through the stations of fellow members to recall early days before the development...
...succeeded in the league's presidency by Dr. Eugene C. Woodruff, head of Pennsylvania State College's departments of Electrical and Radio Engineering. Under President Woodruff's leadership, $18,000 was appropriated by the League for the new station, WIAW (Founder Maxim's old private call letters, recently assigned...
Across the continent they talk, call each other "Old Man," but seldom meet. Their relative freedom in the use of U. S. air waves they credit to The Old Man (pseudonym under which Founder Maxim wrote for QST-see p. 67). When in 1914 Inventor Maxim was unable to reach with his Hartford transmitter a fellow amateur 30 miles away in Springfield, he arranged to have his message relayed by a third amateur operator, conceived and organized the A.R.R.L. to put such relays on a nationwide basis. In 1919, when the U. S. Government was reluctant to give...