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Last year Jew Baiter True patented under "Amusement Devices and Games," a policeman's club (Patent No. 2,026,077). Referred to by its inventor as a "Kike Killer," No. 2,026,077 is a short, stream lined hardwood truncheon, with finger grip and leather lanyard. Two "Kike Killers" were handy on the True desk during the interview, the New Masses reported. Mrs. True, the New Masses interviewer was told, carried a less hefty bludgeon called a "Kike Killer, lady's size." Pointing out that "for a first-class massacre more than a truncheon is needed...
...years ago President Albert Burns of the Inventors' Congress declared that he had seen pigeons, rabbits, dogs and cats killed at a distance by a "death ray" which dissolved red blood corpuscles. The inventor, said President Burns, was Dr. Antonio Longoria (TIME, July...
Longoria sold his process to Yoder Co. of Cleveland for an unannounced sum. Then Bridgeport (Conn.) Brass Co. raised indignant howls, claimed that the inventor had verbally contracted to sell the process to it for $600,000. In Cleveland last week Bridgeport Brass Co. was suing in Federal court to prevent the deal with Yoder Co. from bearing fruit...
...Manhattan last week Inventor Longoria turned up with a photostatic copy of a check for $800,000, allowed newshawks to get the impression that his welding was done by means of an "invisible ray," that the total profit from his invention would run to $6,000,000. He admitted that the process had been developed for use on fine wires, but felt it could be extended to handle much heavier work and exhibited pieces of welded metal ⅜ in. thick...
...time, gets along well with plain men when he sees them as individuals. But pursuit of the Big Money corrupts his native talents as well as his good nature, eventually kills him. Dos Passos frames the story of Anderson with thumbnail sketches of Henry Ford, Frederick Winslow Taylor, inventor of scientific management; and Thorstein Veblen. Like Ford, Charley Anderson had native mechanical skill, loved to tinker with machines. Like Taylor, he suffered because he tried to speed up production, to make manufacture efficient, and shrank from the resulting hostility of workmen. Veblen, a lifelong student of the conflict between production...