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...wireless messages. At that time Great Britain, long dominant in cable communication, was also the outstanding leader in wireless. World's greatest wireless company was British Marconi (Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.) which controlled American Marconi (Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America), leading U. S. wireless concern. British Marconi was attempting to buy from General Electric Co. exclusive rights in the Alexanderson high-frequency alternator, which first made long-distance radio communication possible. From the Inter-Allied Conference on Radio at Paris to Manhattan went Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, U. S. N.,* talked with General Electric...
...turn of the century found the young firm of Doubleday, Page & Co. about to publish a new magazine. Partner Walter Hines Page was to be editor. The magazine was to concern itself with the "activities of the newly organized world, its problems and even its romances." Assisting in early discussions of policy and in the selection of a name was a young man, Russell Doubleday, 28, ten years the junior of his publisher-brother Frank Nelson Doubleday...
...handshake Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York. Last week Governor Roosevelt asked his Attorney-General to investigate at once and within two weeks report upon the new $665,000,000 Morgan merger of New York utility companies (TIME, June 24). Reason: It was "a matter of vital concern ... to every householder . . . who uses electric light or power in his home" if, through agreements with friendly companies, the Morgan merged companies would be in such a monopolistic position that "the monthly . . . bills of millions of people may perhaps be affected...
Long established, conservative, is the Manhattan brokerage house of F. B. Keech & Co., No. 52 Broadway. Newly opened and modernistic, however, is the Brooklyn office of this same concern. Designed by Mrs. H. Lawrence Carpenter, wife of Brooklyn Office Manager H. L. Carpenter, the Keech & Co. suite in the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building tower is fitted up like the interior of a yacht. Thus ships' bells chime out the hours, and sunlight enters not through windows but through portholes. The office has also a special room for women-traders...
...elsewhere. Infant Shame. The minimum age at which a person can be embarrassed, shamed and disgraced has never been clearly defined. But up to last week one Theodore W. Purtee, of Cincinnati, considered that a 12-month-old baby was not too young to be embarrassed, shamed, disgraced. A concern used Mr. Purtee's infant son's picture for advertising purposes in a manner which he thought most humiliating. Father Purtee sued for $5,000 damages, alleging that Infant Purtee had, because of it, been "ridiculed by friends and acquaintances." Furthermore, the picture hard been published without Infant...