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...press and courts. In 1893 Alternating Current, constant neither in value nor direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors. No inventor he, the Steinmetz theoretical work found fruition in three thick red volumes, Alternating Current. His popular book is America and the New Epoch, showing why he was pro-German in the War, also how the merger of small companies into a trust was a step toward Socialism. After indulging in Socialist politics, a Western lecture tour...
...Washington. To East Room ceremonies were invited twoscore diplomats representing the ratifying powers. The President had a speech ready. A formal luncheon was to be served in the State dining room. Among the prime guests was to be Frank Billings Kellogg, the Coolidge Secretary of State who brought to fruition the idea of France's Aristide Briand for such a treaty. Calvin Coolidge had also been asked to attend. There were to be band music, cameramen, a nationwide hookup...
...greatest among men. ... It was fitting that a son of Italy& should have been marked by destiny. . . . It is the fortune of our country to have attracted thither an impressive number of the sons and daughters of this land where leadership and lofty talent have so long found noble fruition. . . ."-Calvin Coolidge, by letter, to the Italian Benevolent Society, among whose honorary presidents are Alfred Emanuel Smith and Benito Mussolini. The occasion: a Columbus Day festival in Manhattan...
...shimmering cloak of gold tissue with hat to match. In sombre contrast was the Cross Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve new Knights of the Grand Cross of the Bath...
...their organizations and their properties and call the combination the United Methodist Episcopal Church. They would be united "under a name that will be universal in meaning and not confine us to any race or country." Members of both denominations were glad. Efforts of 30 years were coming to fruition...