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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James B. Upham, whom Mr. Bellamy later recalled as an "inspiring old patriot," was a junior partner in the Companion. After James Upham died in 1905, The Upham Family Association of Maiden, Mass, announced that he had prepared the original draft, that Francis Bellamy was only one of several Companionate contributors to the final version. As president of the U. S. Flag Association, Colonel James A. Moss, U. S. A. retired, in 1930 approved the Upham claim...
Constructed from Leonardo's drawings, at a cost of $250,000, were more than 200 models of his inventions, in almost all of which he anticipated later inventors. Some of the contraptions: a jack (see cut); a turnspit driven by the draft of a chimney; a machine for cutting files and rasps; a printing press with movable type; an olive oil press such as is still used in Italy; a pile driver; an automatic saw; an automatic gear, like the differential in an automobile; a flying machine, whose bird-like wings were supposed to be powered by the operator...
Today at 49 Floyd Reeves is wiry, quick, dynamic. Facing his new job-to help draft a plan for helping Youth and see that it is carried out-he complained last week that Youth's opportunities were narrower than when he was a boy, suggested that Youth be allowed to vote at 18 in order to reduce the electoral odds now favoring oldsters...
...trust which they have abused. The first selection of the Freshman class this week has made it patent that these gentlemen do not feel obliged to follow any precepts in the admissions system except their own opinions and prejudices. If their attitude does not change before the second draft is made this year, it will be necessary to curtail their authority with a system of set criteria...
...months of the year he is a loyal Tammany man; in summer he usually goes to Ireland and makes speeches on trade, which the Hearstpapers dutifully report. What Ireland needs most, after independence, William Griffin thinks, is a chain of modern hotels. Occasionally Publisher Griffin starts a movement to draft William Griffin for mayor (1937) or Senator...