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Representative Thomas S. Butler of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, father of famed General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines, heeded the demand of Admiral Eberle and took his troubles to President Coolidge. The first conference at the White House bore no immediate fruit. Representative Butler, organized his committee for action, for revolt if necessary...
...government of the United States, from the Common wealth of Massachusetts, from more than a dozen learned societies, from one hundred and forty-seven colleges and universities, from ninety-seven Harvard Clubs, from the faculties and students of the different departments of the University, and from countless individuals. All bore praise to the most eminent modern American educator. I quote from two of these messages as exemplary of all. One stresses the human side of the man, the other the academic...
...tossed a frail figure of perfections angelic rather than human. Its youthful, milk-white features are serene in apparent death. David Butternut, young and gigantic able seaman, trembles at the sight. Only a few hours before he has knocked dead a man who, though an arrant scoundrel, bore just such a seraphic countenance. Now remorseful and half afraid lest this be his victim's ghost, David kneels, chafes the seeming corpse's slender, blue-veined wrists, and quite disregarding the tempest, whispers long, soulful entreaties that the visitor return to life. At length the angel's eyes...
...audiences there are best satisfied when all of their favorites shine. And it has been several weeks since anyone except Clive himself bore any of the burden. Nan Marriot Watson has disappointed in a variety of roles. Even the ladies' delight, Allen Mowbray, has failed them, for his part in the present play is not only small but his performance is unimpressive. It might be ventured that it is a grave mishap to include the dashing Mr. Mowbray in a cast when he doesn't hold front and center. His lines will be fortunate if they receive anything like their...
...wireless telegraphy, permitting the clearer re ception of messages, and of more than one message simultaneously on the same antenna. By 1901 I had so built up the power of my transmitter that I attempted talking from Cornwall to Newfoundland-with success on the very first trial. (This feat bore out my old contention, assailed by many, that the curvature of the earth would not impede the progress of electric waves.) The following year saw the extension of transatlantic communication to Capes Breton and Cod from Cornwall and I noted, for the first time, the now familiar 'night effect...