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...When you read the names of the following persons, what fact is immediately associated with them in your mind? Answer in one or two words in each case. Mendeleff, Davy, Perkin, Faraday, Curie, Priestley, Gay-Lussac, Dalton, Solvay, Ramsay, Lavoisier...
Adam's Apple is ever so vaguely reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Even as Wilde's Algernon Moncrieff invented his mythical friend Bunbury for a social convenience, so Playwright Test Dalton's stockmarketeer invents an opulent "Uncle John" as an excuse to escape from his wife of nights. When a burglar is caught by the wife and poses as "Uncle John" there is a great deal of embarrassment all around, no small part of which is genuine, shared by actors and audience for a play both flat and flimsy...
...such wise ones already are Brig. Gen. Albert Clayton Dalton, vice president and general manager of the U. S. Merchant Fleet Corporation, and Samuel Pickard, Federal Radio Commissioner...
...General Dalton, second-highest-paid executive official,* will join a private shipping enterprise. Since 1926 he has directed the Government's fleet of 250 vessels. He rose from an Army private to Assistant Quarter-Master-General in charge of transportation. A year ago the Dalton brow darkened unhappily when a Fleet Corporation reorganization clipped his authority. Now the prospect of the sale of the Government's ships, with the consequent evaporation of his good job, was doubtless what tempted him to desert the Coolidge barkentine...
...Dalton salary of $18,000 was second only to the President's $75,000. In the Judicial branch of the Government, the Chief Justice of the U. S. receives $20,500; Associate Justices...