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Elected. Herbert Hoover Jr., 29; to be president of the Aeronautical Radio Corp., which he organized to transmit aeronautical and meteorological information to air lines. Said he, interviewed at Chicago: "Father forbids my talking with newspaper men or posing for pictures...
Ever since electrical engineers found it economical to transmit high voltages of electricity from powerful central stations, they have had trouble handling the goods to be delivered. Simply to turn on and oft a monster current requires monster circuit breakers (switches). For currents of 220,000 volts, switches have had to be as large as water tanks' on apartment house roofs. It was necessary to immerse the breaker points in an oil bath of high insulating properties to smother the flashing arc when the circuit was broken. Frequently it was necessary to change the oil which was carbonized (made...
Playwright S. N. Behrman. whose frolicsome plays (The Second Man, Serena Blandish) were admirable, does not use ponderous syllables to transmit his new solemnity. His idiom is rapid, keen, unfailingly dramatic. For Alfred Lunt he has provided another personal success with perhaps the most picaresque role of his career. For the Theatre Guild, smarting from the rebuffs given Karl and Anna and The Game of Love and Death, he has made the season happier...
Easily secured by Mr. Stimson was the cooperation of both Britain and France, the latter country consenting to transmit his "reminder" to Russia (see p. 9). Soon after the "reminder" was transmitted, Statesman Stimson received formal assurance from China and Russia (the latter through French Ambassador Paul Claudel) that each would abide by the Kellogg Treaty, that neither intended to take hostile action in their dispute...
...fact that Clarke Bros., unsupervised, belonged to that class of banking institutions known as "private bankers" which do not have to be supervised as long as they do not describe themselves as "banks," do not accept deposits that at any time run under $500,? do not transmit money or negotiate notes. The $500 minimum deposit regulation (passed in 1914) is supposed to keep widows, orphans and other "small" depositors out of such banking houses. Present-day prosperity permits many to save $500 without having good banking judgment. Because Clarke Bros, conducted a private banking business, they have been erroneously...