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...First Commoner of the Realm, the Rt. Hon. John Henry Whitley, Speaker of the House of Commons, resigned last week, thus leaving that potent assemblage "voiceless and without mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: New Speaker | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...Jersey City police and firemen held their annual parade and on the curb opposite Mayor Hague's reviewing stand stood voiceless Mr. Burkitt, holding up, in mute salute, a case of eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Jersey Giant | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...enable such voiceless people to speak, Dr. Mackenty, at the Vanderbilt Clinic, Manhattan, early in 1925 displayed a device made for him by Dr. Harvey Fletcher and Clarence E. Lane of the Western Electric-American Telephone & Telegraph laboratories. The apparatus consists of a small cylinder about the size of a man's pipe bowl. From the bottom reaches a flexible rubber tube which at will is attached to the opening in the cripple's throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mechanical Larynx | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Lions Club of York, Pa., was Dr. Gill's immediate audience last week as he flayed- ". . . The commissioning of recent graduates in medicine, attracted to the Naval Health Service by an assured stipend, a voiceless clientele, lack of competition and diagnosis backed by military rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: More Magruders | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...specimen of Upshavian verbiage: "But, my colleagues, friends, and comrades of a sacred fellowship, and fathers, most of you, of sons and daughters who are to be your crown and joy or your voiceless despair, I summon you to the comradeship of helping to make Washington safer for our homes here and the homes of the Nation everywhere. I do this for the sake of making the most beautiful flag in all the world 'a stainless flag' before the eyes of all the world. I do this for the sake of the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Earnest Willie | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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