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John Hays Hammond Jr., famed inventor: "For some weeks past, I have been in Rome, during which time I saw Premier Mussolini, presented him with a five kilowatt broadcasting outfit of the selective wave or narrowcasting type. . . . Last week, in my apartment in Palazzo Massimi, I was lighting an old-fashioned gas water-heater, when it exploded, severely burning my face, eyebrows and hair. Although I am suffering considerable pain, I hope to be completely recovered in two weeks...
Five high-school boys sat in a row. One got up and then there were four. Behind these four sat a gathering of foreign diplomats, three members of the Coolidge Cabinet-Secretaries Wilbur, Work and New-U. S. Superintendent Ballou of Education, John Hays Hammond* and President Coolidge himself. A band was playing "O Canada," which some of those present tried and others pretended to sing. When the band stopped the schoolboy who had left his seat in the row began to make a speech...
...Coolidge's speech. The event was the international finals of an oratorical contest worked up by leading U. S. newspapers to promote, not the art of oratory, but the interest of young people in the science of government. As President Coolidge had explained after being introduced by Mr. Hammond: "It will be a help to the youth of different nations to learn of the benefits which each is deriving from its own institutions...
...been difficult for the newspapers to prevail upon Mr. Hammond to preside. His interest in education, early stimulated by friendship with Cecil Rhodes (scholarship) whose consulting engineer he was in South Africa, has lately quickened. Some months ago he addressed "all June graduates" by radio on the subject of "Success...
...night of March 15, 1925, one Madge Oberholtzer, a girl locally known as "Poor Madge," who had been connected in a minor capacity with Republican activities in Indianapolis, was led to Mr. Stephenson's house, forced to take a drink, and abducted by train to Hammond where Mr. Stephenson ravished her. In the morning she found some arsenic on the bathroom shelf. She was returned in a closed car to her father's house on March 17. Later she died...