Word: hammond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Responsibility for the talk about nationalization lies with John Hays Hammond, who has been haunting the halls of White Court, pestering the President to breathe life into the recommendations of Hammond's defunct coal commission...
...Hammond, and not the mine workers, who proposes that the Federal Administration shall cast overboard its policy of non-interference with business. It is Mr. Hammond who proposes that the Republican majority in Congress shall depart from its traditional policy and, through legislation, establish a semi-regulation of the anthracite industry...
Meanwhile, there was little progress in determining when the mules should be reinterred. John Hays Hammond kept close to Swampscott, reminding the President of a long list of recommendations made by him two years ago. Typical of these were...
...command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they play, but a crisp, living, leaping engine of wire strings and felted hammers. Such a dream-piano may have been made incarnate by InventorJohn Hays Hammond Jr., "smart son of a smart father", (TIME, Aug. 17, AERONAUTICS). Last week he gave his name to a pedal...
...Inventor Hammond has perfected for the piano a device which enables the player to have control over notes after he has struck them. It is operated by a fourth pedal, the "Hammond Pedal", which opens and closes an arrangement of parallel revolving slats on the roof of the soundproof case much as the old-fashioned window-shutter was manipulated by its spindle. Since the case is soundproof, the tone can be built up within the pianoforte, its volume depending on the angle of the shutter) and allowed to escape at the will of the player. Again, the reflector can return...