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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Explaining to businessmen that he had meant no offense in criticizing the university for spending money to teach Gaelic) I'm for the Irish, God bless them. They should have all the education they need...
...Paris last week telephone users were urged to "Save your time, your money, your memory and your nerves." How? By renting a clever little gadget for automatic telephone dialing. The device, called the "Mémophone," is a mechanism which works independently of the ordinary telephone dial. On top of a small box is an indicator table, with room for 30 names. To call a number, you move the indicator opposite the name you want, press a lever, and the works inside the box then do the dialing...
Time required for the Mémophone to dial a number is 71/2 seconds, as against an average of 15 seconds for hand dialing. To circumvent snoopers, names can be entered on the table in code letters or figures. Another advantage is that, by locating the police and fire calls at the top and bottom of the indicator's range, these numbers can be called in total darkness...
Rental charge for one Mémophone is $10.60 a year, plus an installation charge of 21? for each entry on the table. The French bureau of pharmaceutical manufacturers has leased 24 instruments, two big automobile companies eight and six instruments respectively. The Mémophone cuts down toll charges by eliminating wrong numbers due to slips of memory or the finger. The practical Frenchmen who are boosting the Mémophone have assembled statistics showing that 15% to 17% of all hand-dialed calls are wrong numbers...
...only as a coward, weakling and swindler, but as a faithless husband to boot. If Nicky gets his nick, it will be the deepest cut in Hollywood's hide since Russian Princess [rina Alexandrovna Youssoupov, whose Brother helped murder Rasputin, got an estimated $750,000 from M-G-M because a "Princess Natasha" was shown being assaulted by the Mad Monk in Rasputin and the Empress six years...