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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annually awards the Spingarn Medal, highest honor a U.S. black man can receive. Major of infantry in the War, onetime Republican candidate for Congress, Spingarn now lives quietly "as a retired capitalist," grows clematis on his 1,000-acre estate in Dutchess County, N. Y...
Fortnight ago in Syracuse, N. Y., a postal clerk came upon a parcel addressed to "Comrade Chancellor Charles Flint, Syracuse University." When the parcel gave off a muffled tick, the clerk turned white as a miller, rushed the parcel to the postmaster. The postmaster sent for the police. The police sent for a Department of Justice expert on infernal machines. The expert dunked the parcel in a pail of water, prodded it with a long pole, gingerly took it apart. Disclosed was an arrangement of cardboard tubes, cotton wadding, piano wire, an alarm clock works and some sort of granulated...
...morning last week scientists, foremen and loyal workmen at Corning (N. Y.) Glass Works looked anxiously up at a grey, wintry sky, hoped the threat of snow would not materialize, for momentous and delicate doings were on foot. The snow held...
...Lindbergh kidnapping to him. Rushed out of court, Mr. Burns tried unsuccessfully to sell a 10,000-word account of the "confession" to the Press. Said he: '"I am not a seeker of publicity." Two days later he turned up successively in three theatres in Queens, N. Y., performed a marriage on the stage of each, made a speech about the Hauptmann case...
...fabricates porcelain insulators. The Chicopee Falls (Mass.) plant turns out radio equipment. The Newark (N. J.) plant manufactures metres. Power transformers and transmission equipment are produced at Sharon, Pa. Diesel-electric units, steam turbines, marine reducing gears emerge from the South Philadelphia works. A Long Island City (N. Y.) plant specializes in X-ray equipment, a Cleveland plant in lighting fixtures, a Homewood (Pa.) plant in repairs and replacements. The East Springfield (Mass.) factory concentrates on fractional horsepower motors and the things they operate - fans, vacuum cleaners, food mixers, refrigerator units. Refrigerator cabinets, irons, ranges, toasters are made in Mansfield...