Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patrick took the bread knife and obliged her. He was the first man to be condemned to death in Buffalo in six years. It was the duty of the sheriff to hang him. The young sheriff went home to his mother Ann, widow of a Presbyterian parson, in Holland Patent; N. Y., to ask what he should do. She advised him to pay a deputy $10 to act as hangman. He replied that he would not ask another man to do a dirty job like that...
During the War of 1812, when British soldiers were firing Washington, a group of invaders arrived before the Patent Office, ready to apply the torch. Out on the portico strode Superintendent William Thornton, puffing and glowering. Bellowed he: "This is the emporium of the arts and sciences of America. Don't burn it!" The British commander stared, saluted, led his troops away...
Before 1776, most of the American colonies granted patents. But an inventor had to obtain a separate patent from each colony in which he wanted protection. The name and invention of the man to whom Thomas Jefferson granted the first U. S. patent were lost to history because of a fire...
...patents were granted by the Cabinet, signed by the President. On July 4, 1836, Andrew Jackson signed an act creating, as part of the Department of State, a separate Patent Office headed by a commissioner.* First patent under this jurisdiction went to Senator John Ruggles of Maine, for a system of cog gears...
Mark Sullivan, beclouding the issue with more than his usual adeptness, contributes a piece of muddled thinking when he likens the Conference to the "Wilsonian illusion". The new effort is directed, indeed, towards a limited measure of international security, but nobody expects it to provide a patent remedy for world differences. Rather it is an opportunity for horse-trading, for the exchange of one practical concession for another. And if the seeds planted concern a multi-lateral agreement and trade pacts, Buenos Aires will not be found a Sahara...