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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee, one Mrs. Clara Louise Leslie, research collaborator, of Washington, D. C., protested: "It [the bill] would be a slap in the face and at the reputation of every honest inventor whose invention Mr. Edison has claimed for himself. In my studies I found that the microphone, the continuous current transformer and the gramophone, the modern disc talking machine, were invented by Berliner, and that motion pictures were the invention of C. Francis Jenkins. But regardless of patent records, and medals granted by that hierarchy of learning the Franklin Institute, to Berliner and Jenkins for these great achievements, Edison nevertheless...
...discussion of the Central American war and the current political situation in the Caribbean will take--place immediately after luncheon and will be open to the student body and faculty of the University...
...born persons of voting age in the U. S., more than any other national or racial group except Jews and Negroes. The German vote, well organized, is potent. It is greatly influenced by the dignified nine-year-old Steuben Society of America, one of whose objects is to alter current ideas about War Guilt. There was, therefore, more than one reason for last week's headlines: "Hoover is Undecided on Visiting Louvain...
...Paul Dudley White of Boston. A serum from patients with rheumatic fever (important and insidious cause of heart disease) has shown encouraging effects in 270 cases of the fever.-Dr. James Craig Small of Philadelphia. By means of the cardiotachometer, machine with amplifying vacuum tubes, the tiny electrical current generated by each heart beat makes its record on a paper tape, like those in stock brokers' offices. Thus for the first time doctors can have a continuous record over hours or days of the effect of disease, drugs or exercise on the heart.-Dr. Ernst Philip Boas...
...least seven new cinemas are released every week in the U. S. Bad ones often last six months; good ones, a year. That makes a large number now running. Herewith, a chart of current cinemas...