Word: marconis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became Lord Chief Justice, the next year a baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi Co., of which his brother was agent. He had disposed of 1,000 shares to Lloyd George, sold the rest at a profit. Newspapers made...
Guglielmi Marconi, father of radio, Roman Senator, the papal marchese who built Vatican City's radio station, wants to give his good friend the Pope an inviolable means of communication between the Vatican and the remodeled papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. A system using extremely short radio waves would suffice. Such waves would be relatively cheap to produce. They may be concentrated into a straight, pencil-like beam like a spotlight. But for utility in signaling there must be no obstacle between transmitter and receiver. Hence the transmitter may not be beyond the receiver's terrestrial horizon...
Since Castel Gandolfo is invisible from the Vatican, to oblige the Pope Signer Marconi was obliged to use reflectors or to develop a system of "bending" short waves or somehow shooting them out in a curve. Last week he announced that he had done so, that he and his collaborator, the Marchese Luigi Salari had communicated over a distance of 167 miles on 57-cm. (less than 2-ft.) waves. Other radio engineers read his statement with wonder and respect, awaited details...
Married. Anne Marie Wallace, of Manhattan, great-great-granddaughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Don Rodolfo del Drago. son of the late Prince Ferdinando del Drago; by Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli; in Rome. A witness for the groom: Senator Guglielmo Marconi...
...increasing fortune. He was raised to the peerage in 1919 after he became Minister of Munitions. During the War he was Surveyor General of Supplies, directed the expenditure of over $2,400,000,000. His close friendship with Sir Thomas began in 1927 when he became chairman of Marconi Co. and a director of Lloyd's Bank. In his will Sir Thomas appointed him one of six trustees of his estate, estimated at $3,910,000. Lord Inverforth is now chairman of the trustees...