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...jockeying for a position of advantage in dealing with his own Government, but hasn't produced enough results to justify any large investment. The scientific world is unanimous in condemning Matthews' publicity before thorough tests. New names of great scientists who laughed at Matthews' story included Edouard Branly, French physicist, who said that no concentration of known rays could produce the force claimed, and that scientists do not anticipate the discovery of new rays that can. Dr. John H. Morecroft, of Columbia University, says that no scheme for using rays destructively has yet advanced beyond that...
...some time it has been said that Caillaux would "come back." Herbert Bayard Swope, famed Executive Editor of The New York World, predicted about two years ago that "within three years Caillaux will be either Prime Minister or controlling the appointment to that office." Meanwhile, Edouard Herriot, Radical Mayor of Lyons, has stepped into Caillaux's shoes and it is extremely unlikely that he will step out of them; for he once said of Caillaux: "I may admire the mind, while detesting the soul." But, judging from the signs of the times, Caillaux is "coming back...
...past week saw President Millerand, Premier Poincaré and ex-Premiers Briand and Painlevé, and Radical Mayor Edouard Herriot of Lyons rocked together in a conclave cradle. Rumors, like hope, sprang eternal; but nothing definitely important nor importantly definite became known. It was, however, generally assumed that Edouard Herriot will succeed Raymond Poincaré as 70th Premier of the Third Republic...
...first public demonstration by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (see Page 21) of the most successful method of electrically transmitting photographs yet developed. It is by no means the first time the feat has been done, however. The best-known previous method is probably that of Edouard Belin (TIME, April 7, 1923), who, on Nov. 14, 1920, transmitted photographs from St. Louis to New York. The New York World owns the American rights of the Belin system, which it has improved in private research, but has not yet used commercially. The Belin principle is quite different from...
...Bolshecrats of Moscow, expecting the fall of Premier Poincare, forecast the early recognition of Sovietland by France. This hope was based on the possible succession of Mr. Edouard Herriot to the French Premiership...