Word: gens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Gen. George O. Squier, former chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army, reporting the results of recent experiments in ocean cable work, stated that a universal automatic telegraph transmitter, applicable to radio, land lines and submarine cables, has been tested on artificial cables in the laboratory. The electron vacuum tube is facilitating the new development; an undreamed-of degree of cable efficiency will be possible by amplification of received cable signals. Cable and radio telegraphy each have their natural sphere of utility and are not essentially in conflict...
Free State troops by night, on the orders of Defense Minister General Richard Mulcahy, surrounded a Dublin saloon, captured 40 officers, among whom was thought to be Maj.-Gen. Tobin. (General Tobin had led an army "mutiny" against General Mulcahy's plans for demobilization). But General Tobin was not among the officers captured. The grim laugh was on General Mulcahy and he resigned. His place was filled by Home Minister Kevin O'Higgins acting for President Cosgrave who is ill. The problem of demobilizing the Free State army, thereby ousting patriotic soldiers from their jobs, remained...
...proud to have a Governor who believes that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them." (Gen...
...Crile is known the world over not only as a super-surgeon, but as an incisive and original thinker in biology and social psychology. He is a foremost specialist in surgery of the thyroid gland. He has devised methods of avoiding surgical shock by a combination of local and gen- eral anaesthetics (nitrous oxide and novocaine) which he calls " anoci-association." He studied in Ohio, Vienna, London, Paris, and has won more medical prizes than he can stagger under. During the War he was a Colonel in charge of a base hospital. In peace time he is a professor...
...history of the weapons of war is a constant struggle between offensive and defensive weapons. At present airplanes dominate defensive measures of all kinds. But Brig. Gen. Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commandant of the 2nd Coast Artillery District and Pershing's Chief of Staff, announces an unpleasant form of retaliation. This will take the form of an anti-aircraft gun firing a 250-pound shell of high explosive. No direct hit will be required. Detonation will disturb an immense volume of air, wrecking any airplane in the vicinity...