Word: penned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappointed to notice under Milestones in your Feb. 4 issue that TIME had copied the error of many newspapers in attributing the invention of the fountain pen to the late Paul E. Wirt...
...Wirt's overhead feed patent was granted in 1885 whereas the fissure feed patent of Lewis Edson Waterman is dated Feb. 12, 1884. There were many attempts to make a fountain pen prior to Mr. Waterman's invention. It is not known who first conceived the idea of a fountain pen or who first attempted to make one. A crude fountain pen was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii and other ink-containing instruments were known to be in the possession of King Louis XIV of France and Thomas Jefferson. In this country alone several hundred patents...
Editor Lewis Oliver Hartman of Zion's Herald, 112-year-old voice of Methodism in New England, had heard no "call to prayer from the pen of the present President of the United States." He felt "impressed with the crying need of such a summons at a time like this." So Editor Hartman printed on the cover of his last week's issue a call to prayer by Abraham Lincoln and on his editorial page he sorrowfully flayed Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Carl Anderson wanted to learn to draw. Because the only school he could find that specifically advertised courses in pen-&-ink work was the Pennsylvania Museum & School of Industrial Art, he went there. His first job was on the defunct Philadelphia Times at $12 a week. Later a bright young editor named Brisbane hired him for Pulitzer's New York World, where he did a Sunday page about "The Filipino & The Chick." When Hearst, the newcomer, began raiding Pulitzer's staff, Anderson joined the parade to higher wages, joined Hearst's Journal where he drew "Raffles & Bunny...
Herman Bosshard is a truck farmer in Clay County, Minn., just across the Red River from Fargo, N. Dak. One day last summer by a squiggle of his pen Farmer Bosshard suddenly made himself an immensely important figure in the political and financial life of Minnesota. What he signed was a complaint against 19 directors of Northwest Bancorporation, charging second degree larceny for selling him ten shares of stock for $220. Farmer Bosshard was persuaded to sign the complaint by henchmen of Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson...