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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Macadam is now honorary vice president and director of commissions of the Confederations Internationale des Etudiants, of which he was one of the founders. He is also chairman of the Travel Commission, which annually sends from 2000 to 3000 students to various countries of the world as guests of these countries...
...Vera Cruz episode and the outbreak of the World War kept him much occupied with naval affairs during 1914. In March, 1915, he was appointed National Commissioner to the Panama Pacific Exposition, and visited San Francisco with the vice president, on the same trip inspecting various naval properties and ships on the Pacific coast. The year 1916 was wholly occupied in doing what was possible under the existing law in getting the Navy Department prepared for the threatened hostilities...
Radio Lamp Lighters. Ordinarily street electric lamps are turned on and off in groups, by men throwing switches in scattered control stations in various parts of the community. Those control stations are expensive to maintain. To replace the men and stations Westinghouse developed a radio device, which Boston Edison Co. began to use last week on a circuit of 70 street lights. The device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts...
...Churches of Christ in America (newspaper people must be decent to it); Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman (a newspaper columnist himself); Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise (not averse to newspaper publicity), and many a Catholic, Jewish, Protestant layman whose name was not announced. For the greater honor & glory of God, these various factors would work in non-sectarian unison. The Federal Council announced that Dr. Cadman's sermons would be made audible over a hebdomadal hookup of 40 radio stations...
Foreign Loans. Various German organizations are negotiating to borrow $100,000,000 in the U. S.; Greece wants $75,000,000; Hungary $5,000,000 (for its Reformed and Lutheran churches). President Charles Edwin Mitchell of the National City Bank (Manhattan), last week told German bankers that $150,000,000 of foreign bonds offered in New York have remained unsold. That condition will doubtless force new foreign borrowers to offer high rates of interest (7% or more) for new loans...