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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, reprimanded by the Navy Department and asked to make no more speeches as the result of his attacks on Navy inefficiency (TIME, Oct. 3 et seq.) , made a speech in Philadelphia last week ? a short speech meant not to be offensive. Among a few other things, he said: "I could make a speech here tonight that would bring headlines in tomorrow's papers. But I am not the type that seeks notoriety...
...House of Commons passed the week in niggling without result over a profusion of theoretical issues- such as, for example, an eventually defeated Laborite motion to censure the Government for "lack of enthusiasm in pushing world efforts for disarmament...
...patent rights to the Alexanderson alternator, invented at the General Electric Co.'s Schenectady laboratories. This was considered the best device for trans-oceantic and ship radio work. Admiral Bullard argued with every personage whom he could reach that Americans must keep ownership of those patent rights. The result was The Radio Corporation of America. But R. C. A. could never have been organized except for the hearty co-operation of U. S. manufacturers of radio devices. Owen D. Young of General Electric became R. C. A.'s chairman, General James Guthrie Harbord its president, David Sarnoff...
...Great Britain the shipbuilding, armament and heavy engineering industries still suffer the after-effects of the War. As result the British iron & steel trade (notably Vickers Ltd., and Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.) has suffered. Last year and the year before Armstrong, Whitworth had heavy losses. Vickers's earnings have been so poor that the company two years ago reduced its capital from $128,420,000 to $88,396,287, in order to make its dividend rate look respectable...
...result of the new ruling requiring vaccination, which took effect this fall, every new student, both undergraduate and graduate, had first to file a certificate of successful vaccination with the Department of Physical Education before being admitted to the University. No exceptions were made to any student; ten days grace, however, was given to those who had not been vaccinated before their arrival in Cambridge...