Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Hays Hammond Jr., famed inventor: "For some weeks past, I have been in Rome, during which time I saw Premier Mussolini, presented him with a five kilowatt broadcasting outfit of the selective wave or narrowcasting type. . . . Last week, in my apartment in Palazzo Massimi, I was lighting an old-fashioned gas water-heater, when it exploded, severely burning my face, eyebrows and hair. Although I am suffering considerable pain, I hope to be completely recovered in two weeks...
Five high-school boys sat in a row. One got up and then there were four. Behind these four sat a gathering of foreign diplomats, three members of the Coolidge Cabinet-Secretaries Wilbur, Work and New-U. S. Superintendent Ballou of Education, John Hays Hammond* and President Coolidge himself. A band was playing "O Canada," which some of those present tried and others pretended to sing. When the band stopped the schoolboy who had left his seat in the row began to make a speech...
...night of March 15, 1925, one Madge Oberholtzer, a girl locally known as "Poor Madge," who had been connected in a minor capacity with Republican activities in Indianapolis, was led to Mr. Stephenson's house, forced to take a drink, and abducted by train to Hammond where Mr. Stephenson ravished her. In the morning she found some arsenic on the bathroom shelf. She was returned in a closed car to her father's house on March 17. Later she died...
...spokesman for the Hammond family reluctantly confessed last week to the year-old match...
Secretly Married. John Hays Hammond Jr., 38 (smart son of a smart father), famed electrical inventor, to Mrs. Irene E. Felton Reynolds, divorced wife of a Gloucester, Mass., shoe dealer...