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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Justice William Howard Taft; at his summer home in Murray Bay, Quebec. Age: 72. Died. Louis Marshall, 72, of Manhattan, Constitutional lawyer (Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall), philanthropist, "acknowledged leader of American Jewry,"* chairman of the Jewish Council Agency; in Zurich, Switzerland, where he had gone to attend the Zionist Congress; of an infection of the pancreas. His accomplishments: Leader, in 1911, of the movement to abrogate the U. S. Treaty of 1832 with Russia after that country would not honor U. S. passports when carried by Jews, Roman Catholics or Protestant missionaries; leader of the Jewish war relief movement which...
...perfect industrial metal must be stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, heat resisting, tough. Metallurgists have not compounded it. But some 6,000 of them felt that they were approaching the goal as they listened to metallurgical discourses of the National Metal Congress held last week at Cleveland, the Foundry City.* Manganese-Molybdenum Steel. Hard and sharp were the Samurai swords of Japan, the Toledo blades of Spain, the Damascus cutlery of the Levant-because their steels contained small amounts of molybdenum. However, the presence of molybdenum was accident. Mineralogists did not recognize it as a metal until...
...great power and volume produced by a handful of a peculiar metal and a small tank of peculiar gas." dreamily predicted Chicago's Robert G. Guthrie, nominated to succeed Cleveland's Zay Jeffries as President of the American Society for Steel Treating, sponsors of the Congress. Mr. Guthrie's prediction followed his exposition on special furnaces in which gases are used to surface steel. Metals absorb gases, a phenomenon only now being put to industrial use. Konel Metal. News of a new and valuable alloy was despatched to the Congress by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster...
Last week to London went many Catholics for the National Catholic Congress and a simultaneous celebration of the Centenary of Emancipation. First came a speech by His Eminence Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster and head of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain...
Cardinal v. Sex. A congress of sexperts was meeting in London simultaneously to discuss another kind of "emancipation." Incensed, Cardinal Bourne attacked this other congress...