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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Fiske suggested that torpedoes be shot from airplanes, was ignored, went ahead on his own, a year later took out a patent. Though the British adopted a similar device during the War, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels twice turned down the Fiske invention. In 1921 Rear-Admiral Fiske, retired, saw a photograph of a U. S. Navy plane dropping a torpedo. Said he: "It was clear to me that the Government had deliberately taken my patent...
...Washington had met an Editorial Council of the Religious Press. One of the questions discussed was: "What should be the attitude of the religious press toward the movies?" The Churchman took opportunity to editorialize as follows: "[Church journals] were willing, like other groups in America, to accept the statement of the motion picture industry that Will Hays had been employed to 'clean up the movies.' The editors are under not the slightest illusion that Mr. Hays has done so ... Mr. Hays ... is a skillful writer of letters to editors and leaders of religious groups. Anyone who has heard him speak...
...their college days they were a team called "Stone & Webster." At that time electricity was passing through much the same pio neer period now observable in aviation. Bell had just invented the telephone. The first railway electrification was just completed. So Students Stone & Webster majored in electrical engineering, took degrees in 1888. Then came one year of separation which Mr. Stone spent with Thompson-Houston Co. (forerunner of General Electric) while Mr. Webster entered a bank to get the financial experience for the Stone & Webster company which the young graduates already visualized. In 1889 Partners Stone & Webster each borrowed...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's poet-soldier, now 65 and bald even to the eyebrows, had his appendix removed last week. The operation required 45 minutes. Poet-Soldier d'Annunzio took only local anesthetic, lay with a silk handkerchief over his face, talked, laughed, devised and recited verses. Later his personal physician, Dr. Alessandro Duse, found his recuperation normal...
When Sir Wilfred Grenfell left Wiscasset, Me., last fortnight aboard his motor yacht Maraval, bound for his annual summer missionary work in Labrador, he took as usual several college boys to do Labra-chores. This year two of them are Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Dartmouth) and Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (Princeton), grandsons of John Davison Rockefeller...