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Wasn't Author Coyle, he was asked, one of the New Dealers at the famed Red dinner reported by Dr. William A. Wirt? (TIME, April...
...Roosevelt can point with pride to the fact that, in the two years and four months since he took office, the breath of scandal has blown but two piddling puffs on his Administration. First puff was the flatulent product of that impressionable Gary, Ind. school superintendent, Dr. William Wirt. whose charges that the Brain Trust was all but in the pay of Moscow made a farcical Congressional investigation last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). Second puff flurried up portentously fortnight ago when Ewing Young Mitchell, whom the President had to oust as Assistant Secretary of Commerce because he would...
...disappointed to notice under Milestones in your Feb. 4 issue that TIME had copied the error of many newspapers in attributing the invention of the fountain pen to the late Paul E. Wirt...
...Wirt's overhead feed patent was granted in 1885 whereas the fissure feed patent of Lewis Edson Waterman is dated Feb. 12, 1884. There were many attempts to make a fountain pen prior to Mr. Waterman's invention. It is not known who first conceived the idea of a fountain pen or who first attempted to make one. A crude fountain pen was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii and other ink-containing instruments were known to be in the possession of King Louis XIV of France and Thomas Jefferson. In this country alone several hundred patents...
Died, Paul E. Wirt, 85, attorney, inventor of the fountain pen; in Bloomsburg, Pa. Irked by ink constantly spilled on his legal papers, he invented a cumbersome pen, filled by a medicine dropper, on which for a time he held a monopoly...