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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia in 1746, when Franklin was 40 years of age. It shows Franklin at about the time of his retirement from the printing business with what was for those days an ample fortune. He was then devoting himself seriously to the study of experimental science, to which, for the previous ten years, he had been giving much of his time. He was still postmaster of Philadelphia, an office which he had held for nearly ten years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 11/22/1928 | See Source »

...What we want to be sure of," cried Lord Grey, "is that the Government has instructed the Admiralty that in drawing up the program of British naval requirements it should not take the United States fleet into account. Previous British Governments have never done that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament Opened | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Second in significance only to the Cheron appointment is the promotion of smart, indispensable Andre Tardieu from his previous portfolio of Public Works to the vastly more important Ministry of Interior. Destiny will yet make him Prime Minister of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reparations Cabinet | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Because President Irigoyen, during his previous term (1916-22), gave aid and comfort to numerous striking unions, his present attitude was hailed, last week, in the Bolsa de Comerxia or "Wall Street" of Buenos Aires as of favorable omen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Irigoyen Omen | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Frederick August Kolster, who has contributed as much to radio as any man now alive, has invented yet another radio device, a machine for shooting a radio beam at whatever point on earth he pleases. His previous inventions have been the invaluable radio compass, the radio fog signal system, the mobile radio beacon to protect ships in fog, the decremeter which measures wave lengths and dampens radio oscillations, the Kolster radio receiving set. He created the Bureau of Standard's radio section and is its chief. He is chief research engineer of the Federal Telegraph Co. and its allied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Focused Radio | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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