Word: marconis
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...last week the inventor of wireless asked a chance to address British radio listeners on the war, was turned down by British Broadcasting Corporation, wrathfully set out for London to confront members of His Majesty's Government with the fact that free speech had been denied to Guglielmo Marconi...
This motion was adopted at massive Palazzo Venezia last week in a tumultuous closing of ranks around the Dictator by Italians who were saying in their own way, "We hold these truths to be self-evident. . . ." With Mussolini stood Grand Councilmen whose names the world knows: Marconi, Volpi, Balbo, Grandi and others, scarcely one of whom has not been the butt of anti-Fascist insinuations that he had "quarreled with Mussolini" at one time or another. Air Marshal Italo Balbo, once rumored "banished'' to the post of Governor of Libya by the "jealous" Dictator, has been in Rome...
...want to be quoted as doing nothing but smile," declared Thomas S. McCaleb, instructor in Geographical Exploration, when questioned about Guglielmo Marconi's flendish invention. Swathed in rumor, this 'micro-wave' machine is supposed to stall the ignition system of airplanes...
Interest in this apparatus was aroused by cryptic articles appearing in several newspapers, which declared that Marconi and his 'micro-wave' machine will soon be on the African frontier, ready to frustrate dusky aviators as soon as they dare leave the ground, and force their bare feet back to mother earth...
...seems that all the cars within sight stopped functioning for five minutes, and then, equally mysteriously, were able to start again. Next day, all the Rome papers ran a story declaring that Marconi's new invention had proved successful by crippling the magnetoes of all automobiles on the Ostia-Rome highway...