Word: marconis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today at noon. The First Lady of the Land stored by my stand and purchased a bag of fresh roasted popcorn for pastime while she was walking with another fine lady and with one of her favored dogs." ¶ On her 49th birthday, the First Lady entertained Inventor Guglielmo Marconi & wife at luncheon, gave tea to the ladies at the A. F. of L. convention, had a quiet family dinner...
...suggestions. They are a little revolutionary. They may have to be adapted to the gradual thinking of big groups, but they are interesting. Now, as a matter of curiosity, I have talked of that book to different groups of people. Yesterday I talked of it to Mr. [Senator Guglielmo] Marconi. Now, Mr. Marconi has what I would describe as the inquiring youthful mind. I had spoken of it for a few minutes when he said, 'Where can I get that book?' "And I told him. I said I would send it to him. . . . Now the day before...
...Marconi microwaves approach heat waves in shortness and light waves in behavior. They can be focused as a beam and sent in any direction. Theoretically they should be perceptible only just beyond the visible horizon of the sending station. Senator Marconi has made them register over a distance of 180 mi., or nine times his sending station's visible horizon, and has been able to communicate with them clearly and powerfully at five times the horizon. They register beyond mountains. Whether they bend over the mountain tops or go right through the mountains, he last week declared...
Asked a reporter: "Are big storms caused by too much high-power radio in the sky?" Answered Senator Marconi, laughing: "No. There were bad storms in prehistoric days...
...Chicago went Senator Marconi, to visit the Fair, mingle with Italian societies, eat with the American Legion, broadcast over the Atlantic to his listening King Victor Emmanuel receive an honorary Sc.D. from President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University, accept a 28-in. bronze statuet of an exultant young man from the grateful Radio Manufacturers Association...