Word: radio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ousted from a Senate seat William Morgan Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee, strongly-endorsed Coolidge friend. Last year he was again reelected, helping materially to carry Massachusetts for Nominee Smith. He voted for Tax Reduction (1928), Flood Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928) and Reapportionment (1929). He voted against Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929) and the Jones (increased Prohibition penalties) Law (1929). He votes Wet, drinks Wet. Legislative Hobbies: War veteran aid, protective labor measures, U. S. merchant marine, a high tariff for Massachusetts industries (shoes, textiles, manufactures). A bachelor...
...were three: 1) The 1928 Physics Prize (delayed) to Professor Owen Willans Richardson of King's College, London, for research into the movements of electrons emanating from hot bodies. His discovery of "Richardson's Law" gave other scientists important clues which led to the invention of the electron-actuated radio tube; 2) the Prize in Chemistry for 1929, to be divided between Dr. Arthur Harden of London University and Professor Hans von Euler-Chelpin of Upsala University, Sweden, for their joint research on the enzyme action in the fermentation of sugar; 3) the Physics Prize for 1929, to perhaps...
...Soprano Frances Alda (real name: Fanny Adler) announced that this season would be her last at the opera house. Aged 46, no longer shapely or spry, she began a radio career by singing Madame Butterfly for a plumbing advertisement...
Bullish corporate developments late in the week were many. An extra dividend of 30¢ was declared by General Motors Corp. Radio Corp. of America, long the prime scoffing object of "inflation" criers, showed earnings of $8,729,389 for the third quarter, compared to $1,409,299 in the preceding quarter. Announcement was made that the $250,000,000 patent suit brought by Bethlehem Steel Corp. against United States Steel Corp. had been settled out of court. The Aviation Corp. announced it had used part of its $20,000,000 cash surplus to buy stocks other than aeronautical securities...
...annual pang of regret that Harvard and Princeton are still at loggerheads in its day this encounter was buoyed up by an old and interesting tradition Football, like wine, is poor stuff until it has been aged. I would not go across the room to turn a radio dial for the sake of hearing Ohio State and Northwestern. Not, you understand, that these institutions are not admirable, but their rivalry is of much too recent a vintage to be very thrilling...