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...observation that current would pass in only this one direction through the tube was first put to work thirty years ago by J. A. Fleming, an English physicist, who saw a possible use for this feature in the detection and rectifying of radio signals, then being pioneered by Marconi...
...Duce when the Dictator was resisting Sanctions: "DO NOT SOIL YOURSELF AT THE FOUL-SMELLING SEWER IN GENEVA STOP REMAIN IMMOVABLE IN CONTROL OF YOUR PLACID HILARITY." Last week d'Annunzio agreed happily to become Ass No. 1, succeeding the late great President of the Academy, Guglielmo Marconi. European females of fashion are still invited by 74-year-old d'Annunzio to visit him in his eccentric villa on Lago di Garda. According to latest reports they still spend the first four days waiting to be received in sumptuous comfort, find their closets full of the most expensive...
Back to the U. S. after visiting Italy returned R.C.A. President David Sarnoff. Said he: "At the time of his death it was published widely that the late Senator Guglielmo Marconi left a fortune of about $25,000,000. As a close friend of Marconi for many years, I saw the members of his family while in Europe. They told me that the gross value of the estate left by the Senator will not exceed...
Left, By Inventor Guglielmo Marconi: an estimated $25,000,000, of which the bulk goes to Maria Elettra Elena, his seven-year-old daughter by his second wife, the former Countess Marie Bezzi...
Scali. To his widow, Inventor Marconi willed the interest on his daughter's bequest during her lifetime. To his son and two daughters by his first wife, Irish Beatrice Donough who divorced him in 1024, he left the minimum permitted by Italian law; to his first wife, associates and Fascist charities, nothing. Left-By Mrs. Florence Pullman Lowden, late wife of Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, daughter of Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, an estate of approximately $500.000; to her husband...