Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor man, and I know of no reason why the Senate should strike from my hands the right to make a living for my family in a legitimate activity. I know of no reason why a poor man should be excluded from this body and the instrument by which he lives stricken from his hands...
...automatic cameras. Accountants testified that, because Dr. Smahl had always been a nuisance, individual records had been kept in his case which agreed with the company's routine records. Engineers testified that Dr. Smahl's little padlock was insignificant; even with a locked dial the instrument could have been used by removing the receiver and jiggling the hook. A jury of six men, after an hour's deliberation, decided the historic case for Dr. Smahl, awarding him a verdict of $5.40 against the telephone company...
...wage increase. All seemed settled when, at the last minute, strikers voted down the agreement. Meantime the Board had shuttled back to Detroit where trouble had brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase in the plants of Motor Products Corp. (maker of windshield frames, instrument panels, window reveals et al. for Chrysler, Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Hudson, Ford) had put 5,600 men out of work. The Wolman Board proposed a settlement. The strikers promptly rejected it, tore up the proposed peace terms. Short of parts, Hudson Motors shut down, temporarily threw...
...problems of Stanford are those of other privately endowed universities. Its ability to go ahead depends upon its ability to take initiative. We think of Stanford as a testing and germinating center for a new thought and new facts and as an instrument for carrying over from one generation to the next some of the accumulated information that is in the world's possession. The Stanford trust permits unusual freedom. The aim of the Founders was to develop a " University of high degree...
...thought he deserved. Later he went abroad again, acquired a French aviation pilot's license, returned to train at Roosevelt Field. In 1933 Rob ert Gordon Switz married a quiet intelligent Vassar girl named Marjorie Tilley. Soon they went abroad again. Aviator Switz representing a U. S. aviation instrument company. Said J. N. A. Van Ven Bonwhuizsen, president of the MacNeil Instrument Co. : "Mr. Switz was our representative in Europe, but he never made any sales." In Europe the Switzes traveled extensively and lived very quietly, registering at such eminently respectable institutions as the University Union in Paris. They...