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...saying and with his ineffable little smile, the Supreme Pontiff threw an electric switch to inaugurate Vatican City's new electric lighting plant. Senator Guglielmo Marconi was present. The Pope recalled that when he was ordained a priest, the Vatican was dimly lit in some places by gas jets but chiefly by candles...
...refitted and tuned up. Last week they raced for the big silver cup the Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys although the course totaled only 10? mi. Stars are fast in light airs, but on the Chesapeake they had two days...
Born. To Senator Guglielmo and the Marchioness Maria Cristina Marconi: a daughter. Name: Maria Electra Elena Anna. Godmother: Italy's Queen Elena. She is the first child of the Marchioness, there being three other Marconis (a son, two daughters) by the inventor's first wife...
...these needs has now grown Aeronautical Radio Inc., a nonprofit company supported by the airlines to administer their radio operations much as (for profit) Radio Corp. serves U. S. steamships and Marconi serves British steamships. At the head of Aeronautical Radio Inc. is an able engineering son of an able engineering father: Herbert Clark Hoover...
Last week trans-Atlantic telephone service began between Vatican City and the U. S. Soon will be in operation the powerful radio station which Guglielmo Marconi has been constructing for the Vatican, over which the Pope will speak...