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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year later took out a patent. Though the British adopted a similar device during the War, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels twice turned down the Fiske invention. In 1921 Rear-Admiral Fiske, retired, saw a photograph of a U. S. Navy plane dropping a torpedo. Said he: "It was clear to me that the Government had deliberately taken my patent...
Aged 63, farm-born, business-bred (International Harvester for 40 years), Chairman Legge had nothing to say in advance of his new work. "Results, not words," his friends said...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, tanned, wearing a cinnamon suit and tie, was reinstalled in Manhattan last week as a director of National Surety Co., a position which he held for two years prior to 1922. He wandered about inquiringly, said: "I'm looking for the cigars. I won't be a director in any company where they don't keep the cigars on the table...
...recover. Last week he was singing and joking nightly at La Victorie night club, Atlantic City, N. J. Credit for the Tinney progress is due to Eddie Cassaday, oldtime minstrel and Tinney crony, and Professor Edwin Burket Twitmyer, head of the psychology department of the University of Pennsylvania. Said Dr. Twitmyer: "When he first came to me Tinney couldn't walk on a wide board. A ladder was impossible. I taught him to walk, stepping between the rungs. Now he can climb a ladder." Said Comedian Tinney: "Sure...
Root Jr., son of an Elder Statesman, saved the situation. Said he: "Yes, Your Majesty, we recognized you." The other owner and skipper, Paul Hammond, kept his eyes on the sails...