Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister to Egypt; the new Chilean Ambassador, Dr. Carlos Davila, to present credentials; Senators Charles Curtis of Kansas and Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada, and Governor Wallace Rider Farrington of Hawaii, to pay respects; Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee to talk flood control...
...Senator Hiram Johnson attacked "certain great interests" (public utilities) in control of elections in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and cast aspersions upon the Coolidge Administration for not denouncing these interests. Senator Johnson was applauded...
...Munich airport Baroness von Maltzan, former Fraulein Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, and her little daughter, Edith, were waiting for the arrival of husband and father. An official approached, sad news in his eye. The Baroness, with superb self-control, sensed the full import of the messenger's news. "Tell me," said she, "is he killed?" And without an answer being given she knew...
...World's Fair. Three hundred and one exhibits of receiving sets, binding posts, crystals, coils, batteries were spread over three floors of the building. Some sets sold for less than $10, others for more than $2,000. Experts noted with enthusiasm the predominance of sets featuring the single control lever and operating without batteries from an electric light socket. In their opinion such simplification of radio apparatus will do much to bring instruments into the 21,000,000 U. S. homes that out of a total of 27,000,000 are now without them...
Professor C. W. Kennedy, head of athletics at Princeton by virtue of his position as chairman of the Board of Athletic Control, said on Saturday that he had not heard anything of the suggested alumni star game...