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...cooks, ambassadors come and go oftener than any other kind of help. Last week, Secretary of State Hughes engaged two new ones, and President Coolidge announced their appointments. One of them, Edgar Addision Bancroft, was appointed to succeed Cyrus E. Woods as chef at Tokyo. The other, James Rockwell Sheffield, is to be maitre d'hotel succeeding Charles B. Warren at Mexico City...
James Rockwell Sheffield, 60, born at Dubuque, now resident of Manhattan, was educated at Yale College and at the Harvard Law School. He became private secretary to the late William B. Allison, Senator from Iowa, but soon took up a law practice in Manhattan. He once served a term in the New York Legislature, but most of his political activities have been out of office. He has known Charles Evans Hughes intimately ever since the latter was Governor of New York...
...according to reports from Pittsburgh, a cheap process of making stainless iron and steel is being tried out in a number of large mills there. The inventor is Ronald Wild, of England. He, his brother A. H. Wild, founder of a large steel concern in Sheffield, and George Pugiley, another Sheffield man, expert in the open-hearth and electric steel processes, are demonstrating the manner of production...
Name and ClassAge Ht. Wt. B. L. G. Carpenter '24 21 6.01 172 2. F. Sheffield '24 22 5.11 177 3. A. M. Wilson '26 30 6.01 178 4. J. S. Rockefeller '24 22 6.01 183 5. J. L. Miller '24 20 6.02 190 6. H. T. Kingsbury '26 19 6.02 180 7. B. M. Spock '25 20 6.04 177 S. A. D. Liadley '26 20 6.01 180 Average 20 6.01 178 C. L. R. Stoddard...
...will be devised for sending high-frequency "lightning" such as was produced in the Pittsfield laboratories by Faccioli (TIME, June 18, 1923) over an ultraviolet track. Such a combination would indeed be a fatal ray. Meanwhile, a prolific list of competing "rays" cropped up. Dr. T. F. Wall, of Sheffield University, England, applied for patents on a "means of transmitting electrical energy in any direction without the use of intermediate transmission wires," in which the British authorities are also said to be interested. Two other Englishmen, Prior and Raffe, have similar devices. Grammachikov, a Russian, has invented a ray that...