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...electrocuted while working near high voltage wires in the darkness. Also in the darkness the cruiser Milwaukee had collided with the destroyer Simpson, smashing in the latter's bow and sending her to drydock. And while the fighting was fiercest, Captain William Woods Smyth, commanding the battleship Tennessee, had died of a sinus infection on the hospital ship Relief. Significance- Naval maneuvers have a way of firing the imagination of otherwise level-headed journalists and Exercise M proved to be no exception. "The most impressive and important maneuvers ever conducted by the U. S. battle fleet," breathlessly reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: CINCUS | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

Engaged. The Hon. Heather Grace Baden-Powell, 19, daughter of Lieut.- General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, head of the Boy Scouts; and Lieut. G. E. Lennox-Boyd of the Highland Light Infantry; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1934 | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

This befuddlement arises mainly from failure to distinguish between the serious industrial and economic problem which intelligent folk have long admitted, and the particular "ism" adumbrated by a word. Technocracy, which was invented by William Henry Smyth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1933 | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...members of the Harvard faculty who have lent their names to the scheme, two, H. W. Smyth '78, professor of Greek Literature emeritus, and Bronson Crothers '05, assistant professor of Pediatrics, who is president of the board, have already been connected with the school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSORS TO SPONSOR NEW EDUCATIONAL PLAN | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...past four years in the hilly little town of Marion (pop.: 4,156) in south-west Virginia, shaggy Sherwood Anderson, author of A Story Teller's Story, Many Marriages, The Triumph of the Egg, has been publishing two thriving weekly papers, the Marion Democrat and the Smyth County News (Republican). Editor and business manager of the papers has been Author Anderson's redhaired, 24-year-old son Robert Lane ("Bob") Anderson. Last week, a fortnight after his marriage to Mary Leigh Chryst, an English instructor in Marion Junior College, Son Robert bought control of the weeklies from Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Father to Son | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

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