Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President received thousands of protests from prize fight haters against the coming Dempsey-Tunney "Battle of the Century,"† promptly forwarded them all to Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover...
Aftermath. Secretary Kellogg at once despatched a note to the Mexican Government demanding that every effort be made to punish Mr. Rosenthal's slayers...
...lecture desk. Near the tube was a radio transmitter. No one tampered with the gas supply, yet the gas flame was made to flare up, turn from yellow to blue and roar. Dr. Hall explained that seven miles away, in the General Electric Co.'s laboratory, Charles Kellogg, famed "bird man," was broadcasting notes from the phenomenal upper register of his voice. The vibrations, 15,000 to 20,000 per second, transmitted by radio, affected the gas flame as would the vibrations set up by a tuning fork in the experiment familiar to physics students. Sufficiently intense vibrations would...
...Birdman Kellogg's larynx has long been a source of entertainment to the public and of revenue to him. He has been on and off the vaudeville stage for 15 years. His flame experiment was the result of thousands of "fan" letters he received after a radio lecture last month. He can "sing" a note so high that it is inaudible to the human ear. Such a sound can be made with a violin but no Tetrazzini, no Galli-Curci, could make it. With these notes topping his vocal scale Mr. Kellogg has learned to imitate and even improve...
...lifelong vegetarian, stocky, muscular, soft-voiced, with a shock of greying hair and a flowing Windsor necktie, Mr. Kellogg has been an outdoor man all his days. On his valley ranch in California he grows corn twelve feet high, according to his less skillful neighbors, by singing...