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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gait Recorder. When patients with foot or postural troubles go to Orthopedist Russell Plato Schwartz in Rochester, N. Y., Dr. Schwartz puts hobnails on their shoes and has them walk over an electrified metallic floor, thus making an electrical transcription of their gait. The record tells whether a person limps, walks unevenly or has other faults of locomotion, reveals fake claims of injury after accidents. It has proved that very high heels give the wearer unstable posture and tend to make her walk on the ball and toes of the foot. The recording device, which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph...
...Reykjavik, Iceland (930 mi.), southwest to Cartwright, Labrador (1,500 mi.), to Shediac, N. B. (800 mi.), to Montreal (500 mi.), to Chicago (870 mi.). Following'a three-day fete at the World's Fair the squadron will hop east to Port Washington, N. Y. on Long Island Sound. Unlike the South Atlantic flight, on which General Balbo left his planes with the Brazilian Government in barter for coffee, he will lead this squadron home again through the sky. The route, undetermined, may lie via the Azores...
Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.) George Leslie Harrison, Governor of New York's Federal Reserve Bank (in absentia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Canada's Finance Minister (in absentia). . . . . . LL.D. Vice President Herbert Abram Baker of American Can Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. George Parmly Day, Yale University treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Robert Devore Leigh of Bennington College (Vt.) . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...
University of Rochester (N. Y.) Samuel Seabury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
Married. Matthew Chauncey ("Matt") Brush, 56, Wall Street trader, president of American International Corp. (investment trust), reputed to be richest U. S. bachelor of his age; and one Elizabeth Hunger, 33, his private secretary; in Larchmont, N. Y. Because of his knowledge of market operations, he was called to testify at the U. S. Senate's investigation of short selling last spring. Director of 47 companies, he cultivates friends assiduously, is said to keep a card index file of every person he meets. In his luxurious Manhattan apartment he collects elephants of ivory, ebony, stone and metal, owns...