Word: macmillian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some forty pages. Thomas H. Dickinson analyzes Governor Alfred E. Smith in THE PORTRAIT OF A MAN AS GOVERNOR (The MacMillian Co., New York, 1928. $1.) and finds him pleasing to the eye and mind. The moral quality of loyalty, the mental quality of mastery, he finds, have made Smith what he is, and will, perhaps, make him what his many supporters hope he will be. There is a foreword by George Foster Peabody...
Equipment. Daylight is unfavorable to wireless communication, but the MacMillian planes will be equipped with sets for transmitting 20-, 40-, 80-and 180-metre wave lengths. It is believed that the shorter wave lengths will pierce the hitherto impenetrable belt of static between the latitudes of 55° and 75°. The Radio Broadcasters' League hopes to be able to transmit a running account of the expedition's adventures by stepping up its messages at a Chicago station. Eskimo folk songs are also part of the tentative program...