Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made the track team by learning to jump the gun without detection. After he won a shorthand championship with a broken finger by ingeniously sticking his pen through a potato, he became a demonstrator for the Gregg shorthand system. His specialty was taking notes with both hands from a phonograph chattering 350 words a minute. This inhuman proficiency took him to Washington, aged 18, as organizer of the stenographic force for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, where he had occasion to record the thoughts of such dignitaries as J. P. Morgan and the late Judge Elbert H. Gary...
...preliminary races on last week's Hambletonian Day card, the horses were sent off by a new-fangled starting gate: ropes hanging down from a wire drawn high over the starting line. Drivers were permitted 15 seconds (tolled off by a phonograph record) to jockey for position and cross the line. Those who jumped the word "Go" were disqualified...
Since the Axis treaty, Italians refer to Adolf Hitler as La Voce del Padrone ("The Master's Voice"), the Victor phonograph trademark whose secondary meaning is understood by everyone. Too many Gestapo men are around to mention the word "Hitler or "Adolf," but when Italians say "We were better off under our own padrone," the inference is that they believe Il Duce to have lost his hold on Italy and that the Führer is really the boss...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...hint was directed at the independent stations which still sell him time. Last week one famed independent radioman, President Elliott Roosevelt of the Texas State Radio network, put in a biting 2? worth. On one of his thrice-weekly newscasts over Mutual Broadcasting System sponsored by Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp., Radioman Roosevelt blurted...