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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safe side, Brother Herman telegraphed Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson who urgently cabled the U. S. Legation at Peking. In Tientsin a third Brenner Brother, Joseph, soon received from bandit hands a letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Away on a Party | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...William Gerry Morgan of the American Medical Association, who went from his office at Washington to Manhattan to address the opening mass-meeting of the movement at the New York Academy of Medicine. Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, onetime A. M. A. president, also approved, by letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Periodic Health Exams | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...present system of putting through a dial telephone call is as follows: For each of the first three letters of the called exchange name, and for the four figures of the number and the letter of the party line, the caller turns the dial. Each dial turn actuates a delicate electro-magnet at the automatic exchange. If the call is to another dial call, the automatic exchange mechanically connects the call with the proper exchange, number and party, rings insistently. If the dial call is to a manual telephone, the automatic exchange mechanically registers the called number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Talking Phone Dials | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...device, demonstrated last week by Assistant Vice President Sergius Paul Grace of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Inc., utilizes the auditory intelligence and accuracy of the manual operators. Instead of the dialer causing letters and numbers on the call board before the operator, for each letter and number he dials he causes a separate drum to revolve. On each drum is fixed a talking film on which one of the clearest-speaking operators in New York City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Talking Phone Dials | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

From Manhattan a letter was sent addressed by a wag to Booth Town, Conn. Smart postoffice men correctly delivered it in New Haven, Conn., native town of Albert J. ("Albie") Booth Jr., famed Yale footballer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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