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...biggest daily. But from the start, Dev had one trouble with the paper. In the heat of Irish politics, the job of editor, which is virtually a lifetime job on other Irish papers, has been far from that on the Press. Latest casualty was Press Editor Bill Sweetman, who, after 15 years in the editor's hot seat, returned to the relative peace & quiet of being a lawyer...
Died. Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, 78, physicist, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University; after long illness; in Baltimore. He enrolled at Johns Hopkins in its seventh year, graduated in 1886, became its fourth president (1929-35) and a great authority on aerodynamics...
...evening began with a talk by Sweetman describing the various began. He set off incendiaries to demonstrate the use of water, showing how to stead, stream will cause the bomb to burn very fast and scatter...
Adding a feminine touch, Sweetman called for girl wardens to try their luck with a non-explosive bomb. A score of hardy Radcliffe students volunteered, crowding around the fire and putting it out without difficulty...
...Sweetman also showed the effects of one of the commercially sold extinguishers on the actual incendiary used in raids. When he added tar chips to the burning magnesium, a cloud of thick black smoke arose...