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Last week Philadelphia newspapermen noted that President Hoover would go to Federal Court there. He has just filed suit against the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. and the managers of the late Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition. He claims that they have done him out of the Grand Prize for carpet cleaning machines by "a serious error which has greatly prejudiced the Hoover...
...there was indignation in the Hoover plant at Canton, Ohio, when the Sesquicentennial Exposition managers gave the grand prize to the Eureka and the secondary gold medal to the Hoover. "There was knavery in the awarding," said Hoover men, and their lawyers brought suit, alleging that the Exposition managers unexpectedly changed the rules of their carpet cleaner contest, that they unexpectedly changed their jury of award, that an award of a gold medal to Eureka had been wrongly changed to the award of the grand prize. The Eureka Co. has done damage to the Hoover concern reads the bill...
Died. Marquis de Viana, Spanish Court Chamberlain, onetime Grand Master of the Horse; in Madrid. Last September he and King Alfonso dashed 300 miles by night in a motor over muddy country roads and dangerous mountain passes, to calm a threatened rebellion in Madrid, where twelve regiments of artillery had mutinied (TIME, Sept...
...Eastman, famed camera man. To him the idea of opera in English, sung by. U. S. and Canadian musicians, seemed worthy of a huge endowment, by which the Eastman school of music is supported, in association with the University. As a result, young singers are trained, presented in English Grand Opera in a repertory that includes Mozart's Abduction From the Harem, The Marriage of Figaro; Puccini's Madame Butterfly; Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe and Pirates of Penzance; and Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana. In Manhattan, the first three were presented. From a financial point of view, the second...
Over 170 additions have been made since December 9, 1926, to the fast-growing list of books written by Harvard men, it became known in a list published in the current number of the Alumni Bulletin. The oldest alumnus to publish a work was Judge Robert Grand '73, with his "Occasional Verses". The oungest alumnus was Montgomery Major '25 with a volume of children's stories entitled "Merry Christmas Stories...