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Great fun has Patent Commissioner Coe when he assembles his assistants-Professor Richard Spencer, Bryan M. Battey and Leslie Frazer-and they go over such patents as these: Balloon Propelled by Eagles, Vultures, Condors. The birds wore harnesses which could be pulled in any direction by the operator. Birds had "merely to fly." They could also be pointed up or down. The drawing for the patent showed a balloon like a big inverted umbrella, with a bird cage mushrooming above...
Utopian Reed began his Eastern adventure by announcing an advisory committee, consisting of Esther Strachey (divorced wife of British Journalist John Strachey), Alfred Bingham, editor of Common Sense, Felix J. Frazer and Harold Loeb. Messrs, Loeb and Frazer were handy associates of Mr. Reed. Last spring they were employed under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to make a National Survey of Potential Product Capacity in the U.S. When FERA gave up supporting the survey, New York City's Public Welfare Department saw it through. Three months ago one researcher, Robert R. Doane, caused a sensation...
Last week Messrs. Loeb and Frazer handed in their survey to New York City. Discussing the economy of abundance, they announced that the U. S. could have produced $287,000,000,000 more goods and services in the last five years than it did, that if all productive capacity had been employed every U. S. family might have had an income of $4,370 a year. Mr. Loeb officially concluded: "The research of the N.S.P.P.C. clearly shows (a) that poverty prevails in the U. S.. and always has, but that it need not exist in the future because...
...practices in Haiti, which Author William B. Seabrook. credulous savage-lover, exploited in The Magic Island. Seabrook was enthusiastically noncommittal about the actual existence of ''zombies'' (animated dead men). The picture fervently believes in them. Dazed Madge Bellamy has come to Haiti to marry slack-jawed John Harron. Robert Frazer. her secret admirer, invites the two young people to his house to be married. To prevent the marriage he goes to a zombie tycoon. Bela Lugosi. who looks like a comic imbecile, can make his jawbones rigid and show-the whites of his eyes. These abilities qualify him to make...
...speaker of the House, is one of the most capable of the Democratic leaders and stands as one of the most likely of the dark horse possibilities. Selected by the Hearst papers as their candidate for the nomination, Garner's personality and beliefs are discussed by A. C. Frazer '18, author, and a member of the Boston Evening American editorial staff...