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...matter of radio tubes a spirited ruckus was well under way last week following a polite invitation by General Electric Co. to members of the "radio press" to inspect a new tube, unfamiliar on this side of the Atlantic. Smaller (3 x 1 in.) than ordinary tubes, the GE gadget had a black steel casing instead of glass, and its glow was hence not visible. Advantages pointed out by the company...
...once tried to get as Finance Minister Belgium's squat old Copper King and No. 1 banker, M. Emile Francqui, stabilizer of the Belgian franc in 1926. Before the Cabinet slate was announced last week, Brussels proletarians heard that it would contain a director of the Liége National Arms Factory, began murmuring against "The Gun Makers' Cabinet...
Down thumped the lid of the coffin. The cortége set out for Indianapolis' Crown Hill Cemetery where President Benjamin Harrison and three Vice Presidents rest in peace...
...National Broadcasting Co. With everything in readiness despite a last-minute flurry of confusion, one rainy night last week NBC dedicated its new quarters with a gala program. Bland words were spoken by NBC's President Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth, RCA's Board Chairman James Guthrie Harbord, GE's Board Chairman Owen D. Young, RCA's President David Sarnoff (speaking from London) and Sir John Reith, director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. with whom the tycoons chatted across the sea. Some 1,200 invited guests, mostly radio advertisers or their emissaries, watched and listened. All this...
...When Father Gatt, assistant pastor, returned to get his clothes, parishioners recaptured him in the rectory. "We love him; we will not let him go!" they shouted. They fought the police, threw them out, locked the doors, refused admittance to a funeral party, cheered when the cortége retired to another church. They took the front doors off their hinges to prevent efforts to close the church, refused to let priests from nearby St. Paul's hold masses, listened to an all-day entertainment by a 20-piece band, rang the church bell for seven hours, broke...