Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Round Hill, South Dartmouth, Mass., in a dirigible hangar which Col. Edward Howland Robinson (Hetty's son) Green loaned, three of President Karl Taylor Compton's M. I. T. men have built an electrostatic high voltage generator to compete with lightning's violence. Last week in Chicago President Compton announced that shortly the machine would be ready to operate. In preliminary workouts it produced six million volts, would have produced ten million had not the difference diffused into the metal walls of Col. Green's hangar. Workmen now are insulating those walls, and Robert...
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...training. Those who disliked it made more noise this year than ever before. At Northwestern University last month 30 pacifists, with banners, heckled an R. O. T. C. dress parade. At the College of the City of New York, students attempted to gang their President Frederick Bertram! Robinson at an R. O. T. C. parade while he belabored them with an umbrella. At Wisconsin and Missouri pacifists were bitter...
...overstayed its popular welcome by four days. Happy and gratified was the President that a last-minute Senate revolt against the bill carrying $360,000,000 savings in Veterans' pensions had been put down. On recalcitrant Democratic Senators strong pressure had been exerted in the cloakrooms by Leader Robinson, around the Capitol by Budget Director Douglas and. most of all, by Postmaster General Farley (see p. 10). The President himself had made some strategic telephone calls...