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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Efforts to perfect dial automatic switching began soon after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. Some 3,000 patents for machine-switching devices have been filed in the U. S. alone. Out of all these patents, two main systems have evolved, the step-by-step and the panel.* The telephone subscriber cannot tell the two systems apart; the dials and the act of dialing look identical. But in the step-by-step system the mechanical combination necessary to ring the desired number is built up directly, by separate impulses from the dial. In the panel system, a more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

These were part of the things that a tribunal of sport leaders throughout the U. S. said last week about Atlanta's Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Out of a selected panel of ten amateur athletes (TIME, Dec. 1) they named him No. 1, gave him the Amateur Athletic Union's James E. Sullivan Memorial Medal for 1930 as the amateur who "has done most to advance the cause of sportsmanship." Jones got 1,625 votes from the Union's members; Clarence De Mar, runner up, 800; Mrs. Helen Wills Moody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ambassador Jones | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...Long Island. His brusque manners have been interpreted as rudeness and even earned him requests not to ride out with other gentlemen and their ladies. But his friends like him as warmly as his critics flay him and in Tennessee he has found a hunting paradise-natural panel fences, no wire, springy turf-which he has organized efficiently with himself as Master of Fox Hounds. Last spring the Grasslands group got going with an inaugural steeplechase for a cup put up by the Duke of Beaufort. Last week they held their great promised event-a steeplechase modeled on the English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grasslands Downs | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

Mute forefingers pointed. General Fragoso with two of his staff crossed the library, entered the President's office, gently closed the door. Minute later the voice of dauntless old Washington (named for George Washington) Luis was heard through the panel: "The least thing I value is my life-I WILL NOT SURRENDER! Leave this room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Where is the President? | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Boston. Edward Jackson Holmes, director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, paid $35,000 for two tiny wood panel paintings, supposedly by Giambattista Cima de Conegliano. They were proven fakes. For his two Coneglianos and $85,000 he was offered a Velasquez portrait of a man, which hung proudly in the museum for several weeks. A fake also, it is now ignominiously in the cellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fake Lowestoft | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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