Word: dictagraph
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...shouted, "here's a mike." It was attached by safety pin to the drape. Fawcett men traced the wires to a room three stories above. The spy had fled, hearing all was discovered, he had paused only long enough to cut his end of the dictagraph loose, grab his hat and coat. Behind him he left luggage, laundry, razor, expense account, unpaid bill. He was registered "J. P. Wriegel, 5 East 34th Street, New York," which is the B. Altman Department Store...
Last week in Louisville, Joseph P. Wiegers, son-in-law of Bernarr Macfadden and Macfadden Publications chief of promotion-publicity was indicted for criminal conspiracy on charges of using a dictagraph to steal trade secrets. Most embarrassed U.S. publisher was Macfadden Publications (True Story, et al.), which last February ousted Bernarr Macfadden, promised to employ "new policies" after cleaning up a big watered-circulation scandal (TIME...
...team will be picked. With the cooperation of Coach Huntington, Mr. Frank B. Armitage, an experienced Chatauqua speaker, has instituted an entirely new system of training. The men's voices are carefully diagnosed, remediable physical defects are corrected when possible, and suitable exercises recommended. By means of a dictagraph the speaker's voice is transferred to a record which can be reproduced, so that defects are plainly shown, and with the help of the coach much more easily corrected than by the usual method. A series of these records clearly indicates the improvement in the into-nation and delivery...
More recently, Mr. Burns has been engaged in the Ohio legislature bribery trials, when he introduced a new element into detective work by the use of the dictagraph. He is probably best known, however, through the Los Angeles Times dynamiting case. He was employed by the Manufacturers' Association to investigate this and the other recent out-rages which have occurred throughout the country. He has secured the confessions and conviction of the McNamara brothers, and within this month a score of labor leaders have been indicted on information which he has obtained...
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