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...reference to the column Milestones, TIME, Feb. 24, I was indeed surprised to find your account so brief as to omit all mention of one of Hiram Percy Maxim's greatest interests: Amateur Radio. Himself the holder of an amateur "ticket" [license], he was the esteemed president of the Amateur's foremost protective interest, the American Radio Relay League. In the hearts of Hams [operators] will he be remembered longest and best...
...head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago bowling alley. Died- Roy Dikeman Chapin, 55, one of Hudson Motor Car Co.'s founders, its chief executive since 1910, except for the year (1932-33) when he was Secretary of Commerce under President Hoover; of pneumonia; in Detroit. Died. Hiram Percy Maxim; 66, third of a famed family of inventors, best known for his Maxim silencer; of a throat ailment; in La Junta, Colo. Died. James Harvey Robinson, 72, noted historian and editor, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Professor of European History at Columbia University for 27 years, he resigned...
...college is Hiram and the "system" is based on the continental method of giving the student his education in concentrated form. The plan calls for the pursuit of one subject at a time, over a period of nine weeks. For instance a student takes up the study of political science and pursues no other course but this one during the nine-weeks period. During that time he receives what is ordinarily the equivalent of a full term course...
...Holding 52,799 shares of Chain common, as well as 325 shares of its preferred, President Walter B. Lashar was well pleased with the dividend declaration. Most famed product of American Chain is the Weed nonskid automobile tire chain. Weeds, however, were not invented by Mr. Lashar but by Hiram Weed of Canastota, N. Y. In the early 1900's Mr. Weed bought his chain from a small chain company, of which Mr. Lashar was sales manager. In 1915 Mr. Lashar, backed by William T. Morris of New York and Wilmot F. Wheeler of Bridgeport, took over the tire...
...were up on the walls of the National Geographic Society's Hall of Explorers for the final award of prizes totaling $10,000. Curious for an art contest of such value was the list of judges: Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President; Mrs. Emily ("Etiquette") Post; Hiram Percy Maxim; Lowell...