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...late Inventor Charles Proteus Steinmetz with whom Electrical Engineer Doherty worker for three years in General Electric Co.'s research laboratories, fostered no political beliefs...
...chose as their next president Robert Ernest Doherty, bald, able Dean of Yale's Engineering School (TIME, March 9). Pittsburgh's eccentric Mayor William Nissley McNair promptly walked out of the trustees' meeting, snorted: "This fellow's a Communist. He's been associated with Steinmetz- and they're all Communists." The Mayor's characterization needed no further refutation last week when arch-Conservative" University of Pittsburgh invited President elect Doherty to its Commencement exercises, made him an honorary LL.D. Also honored by Pitt, with an L.H.D., was Editor Douglas Southall Freeman...
...absent, the trustees proceeded to elect, as president of Carnegie Tech, Dean Robert Ernest Doherty of the Yale Engineering School. Howled the Mayor: "I wanted to vote for Dean Wright.* This fellow they've elected -I hear he's a Communist. He's been associated with Steinmetz and they're all Communists...
...engineering, only five in teaching. At 18, he was tapping a telegraph key for Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Six years later, a graduate of the University of Illinois, he joined the engineering staff of General Electric, where he worked for a time with the late, great Inventor Charles Proteus Steinmetz. No recluse, he served a term as Mayor of Scotia, N. Y., near G. E.'s Schenectady plant...
...years Samuel Finley Breese Morse never attended a National Inventors' Congress. Neither did Alexander Graham Bell, nor Thomas Alva Edison, nor Charles Proteus Steinmetz. Nevertheless hundreds of lesser inventors, any one of whom might become a Morse, a Bell or an Edison overnight, were assembled in Hollywood last week for the National Inventors' Congress. These were not the bigwigs of industrial and academic laboratories. They were the humble rank & file of U. S. idea men, indefatigable purveyors of small ingenuities, perpetual optimists who swell the total of U. S. patents to some 50,000 a year. For example...