Word: hammond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston, Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts seized th opportunity to educate New England He summoned a conference of New England governors, to which came Governor Brewster of Maine and minor dignitaries from three other states. The aura of importance was supplied John Hays Hammond, Chairman of the Fact Finding Commission appointed by President Coolidge in 1923, Ulyssean councillor, who, after protesting that he in no way represented President. Coolidge, consented to take the chair...
...Anthracite," said Mr. Hammond, "has always been a fetish in New England until the last year or two." "Too long," said Governor Fuller, "our section of the country has stuck to anthracite while other sections never use it." "Anthracite" said Mr. Hammond, "is a luxury and not to be indulged in at too great a cost. We have plenty of substitutes" ?meaning bituminous (soft) coal, coke, fuel-oil. That was the lesson Governor Fuller desired to have expounded...
...Admiral and Mrs. Eberle (for dinner); William C. Deniing, head of the Civil Service Commission (to discuss a successor for Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener - see WOMEN) ; Congressman William E. Hull of Illinois, shortly to sail for Buenos Aires as a member of the Pan-American Highway Commission; John Hays Hammond Jr., inventor (to discuss commercial aviation-see AERONAUTICS) ; Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent; Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget; .Secretary Hoover, recently returned from the West, to present Mr. Coolidge with an invitation to visit California; Senator George H. Moses...
Some of the observers recalled the successful experiments of Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr., and others with radio-controlled ships, submarines, automobiles, toys...
...President gave a luncheon in honor of Count Alexander Skrzynski (pronounced Sh-trin-ski), Polish Foreign Minister. The other guests included Mr. John Hays Hammond, Chairman (1922-3) of the onetime U. S. Coal Commission; J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State; James C. White...