Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Central American revolutions have caused many a jape from the pens of Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry. Guatemala lived up to the requirements of fiction last week by having three presidents in seven days. It was a serious matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the...
Hearstmen of long service marveled when, in 1927, "the chief" reached out to the Manchester, N. H. Union & Leader, plucked its publisher, Col.* William Franklin Knox, and made him publisher of the Boston American. Year later Publisher Hearst boosted his colonel to be general manager of all Hearst dailies, with...
Birthdays. Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, 78, first U. S. physicist to win the Nobel Prize, longtime head of University of Chicago's physics department; Henrietta Szold, 70, founder of Hadassah (women's Zionist organization); Princess Hermine, 43, wife of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern; King Alexander I of...
The direction finder or "homing device" invented by Radioman Geodfrey G. Kruesi of Western Air Express is supplementary to the ordinary aircraft radio. If the pilot cannot pick up the signals of the beacon, he simply tunes in on the known wavelength of any broadcasting station in the region. A...
Wheat. The Canadian Wheat Pool was a full-fledged organization in 1924. It attempted to control world prices, failed. The Federal Farm Board, set up last year, has pegged the price of wheat in the U. S. but found no way of disposing of its surplus. The result may be...