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...Taylor Farnsworth, 30, failed ten years ago as a radio repairman. To George Everson, well-to-do San Francisco bachelor, he submitted his scheme for electronic television, no blueprints. When radio engineers assured Mr. Everson that the Farnsworth idea seemed feasible, he put up money for experiments, got addi tional backing from officials of San Fran cisco's Crocker First National Bank. Hard-working young Farnsworth twice threw equipment worth $25,000 out the window, started over again. Finally successful demonstrations were made at Phila delphia's Franklin Institute. Philco Radio &; Television Corp. bought U. S. rights...
...Ramon Grau con tinued last week to sign breath-taking decrees in the small hours of the night. Scratch-the Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen, a cow, a plow, some seed and tax exemption for two years. Scratch, scratch, scratch...
...spare time to study law. After three years he went back to Cheyenne to hang out his shingle. In another four years he was directing the Democratic campaign which made Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (now Director of the U. S. Mint) Wyoming's Governor. Finally, a Democratic Na tional Committeeman, he lobbied in Washington for Wyoming's gigantic Casper-Alcova Dam project which was finally approved last summer by Presi dent Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 7). As Postmaster General Farley's No. 1 assistant, Joe O'Mahoney had the Presi dent's ear. Now that...
Horsey folk in the East watched closely for hints of what competition to expect next week in Manhattan's "Golden Jubilee" National, where the cream of the Chicago entries were to perform. As at all present-day shows, the most spectacular performance at Chicago was the internal tional military jumping...
...Vice-Chief U. S. Delegate James M. Cox praised the Conference's 500 experts, remarking that "100 of them have been working together at various conferences for ten years." In his final speech Mr. Cox, unable to praise his Monetary Commission, praised the Bank for Interna tional Settlements at Basle, Switzerland as a world force for sound banking which, he said, had helped the Conference. "We can easily foresee," he cried without explaining what he meant, "an entirely new order created by the Bank of International Settlements. ... Of course it can have no arbitrary powers. ... Its services are simply...