Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Past-president of the Society is Howard Thurston of Beechurst, L. I., famed professional, near-peer of the late great Harry Houdini. He was succeeded last week by Hardeen, brother of Houdini. Other prominent national members include the following amateurs: Artist Harlan Tarbell of Chicago, Patent Attorney J. C. Wobensmith of Philadelphia, Royal C. Vilas of Bridgeport, Conn. The New York chapter is headed by Lawyer Bernard M. L. Ernst. Its officers include Leo Rullman, acting Deputy Collector of the Port of New York, and Dentist Lionel Hartley...
Fortnight ago, the Senate confirmed Irvine Luther Lenroot as a Judge of the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals. No senatorial courtesy was accorded this onetime Senator. His nomination was bitterly fought because, once a Wisconsin Liberal, he had turned Conservative, had hindered the Senate's Oil Scandals investigation, had lobbied for power interests. His confirmation by the Senate was first-class news. Like all Senate votes on presidential nominations, the vote was taken in "executive session," behind closed doors, secretly...
...Confirmed: Horace Paul Bestor of St. Louis as a member of the Federal Farm Loan Board; onetime Senator Irwine Luther Lenroot of Wisconsin as a judge in the Court of Customs & Patent Appeals...
Such men as J. P. Morgan the Elder, Henry Villard (capitalistic father of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the present Nation, pink weekly), Edward Dean Adams, Grosvenor P. Lowrey (patent attorney for Mr. Edison), Robert L. Cutting (Manhattan banker), Ernesto Fabbri (Italian-born Morgan partner) and his brother, Egisto Fabbri (shipping), S. B. Eaton (Manhattan lawyer), William H. Meadowcroft (Thomas Edison's confidential secretary), Jose D' Navarro (builder of Manhattan's first elevated railway), J. Hood Wright (Morgan partner) and Norvin Green (President of Western Union Telegraph) became actively interested in Inventor Edison's new project...
...President Hoover appointed Lawrence M. Judd, rancher and county supervisor of Honolulu, to be Governor of Hawaii, succeeding Wallace Rider Farrington. eight-year incumbent. Another appointment: William D. L. Starbuck, New York mechanical engineer, patent attorney, Democrat, to the Federal Radio Commission. As President Coolidge had unsuccessfully done before him, President Hoover sent to the Senate for confirmation the name of Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Senator from Wisconsin, to be Judge on the U. S. Court of Customs & Patents Appeals...