Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathy began swinging back to the strikers, and United Automobile Workers' young President Homer Martin seized the occasion to threaten a city-wide general automobile strike unless the police raids stopped. After a weekend lull, police evicted sit-downers in a printing plant, a W. P. A. station. Labor and the Law moved toward a showdown as Detroit's City Council unanimously refused the automobile union's request for permission to stage a huge mass meeting in Cadillac Square, and Homer Martin blustered that he would hold it anyway...
...found to be loaded with bombs. Then five months later Colonel Francis Riggs, Insular Chief of Police, was assassinated by two young Nationalists as he drove home from Sunday morning mass. The two assassins were seized by police and shot two hours later in the police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering a campaign speech (TIME, March 2, 1936 et seq.}. Last week Puerto Rico's dread disease of violence had its bloodiest irruption...
...diplomat of the old school, was refusing to have the woman who winged him prosecuted. Said the Countess de Chambrun, former Princess Murat: "This journalist often saw my husband when she was in Rome writing news stories. She certainly was suffering from hallucinations when she suddenly appeared at the station and shot a man who had always treated her with deference and courtesy in her role as a newspaper woman...
Early radio engineers and psysicists were aware that radio signals could be transmitted over long distances, but from a theoretical point of view they could not understand why this is possible. They saw no reason why this energy omitted from a transmitting station should not disappear into free space and be lost to the cart. To explain this difficulty, Sir Oliver Heaviside in England and Arthur E. Kennelly simultaneously proposed the explanation that radio signals are reflected from an ionized layer in the upper atmosphere and the energy thereby returned to the earth...
...History, May 4; concerts by the Glee Club on May 11, May 18, and May 25; organ recitals on May 11 and May 25 by Archibald T. Davison '05, Professor of Choral Music; and "The Political System of Japan", Dr. Albert E. Hindmarsh, instructor in Government, May 18. The station broadcasts on 6.04 and 11.79 metacycles...