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Similar arrangements have been made with many other countries. Mr. Ogden Hammond, newly appointed ambassador to Spain, has agreed to entertain the group at Madrid. A special performance of the opera at Paris, athletic meets with Japanese colleges and debates are only a few of the diversions planned. In practically every country, contact will be made with the native students. Approximately 45 percent of the time will be spent ashore...
...Significance: the radio-wave spectrum being definitely limited, many stations are now forced to use the same wavelengths, going on the air at different hours by agreement. There was a hopeful stir when John Hays Hammond Jr. proved the possibility of sending many messages on a single "carrier" wave upon which modulations were impressed (TIME, Oct. 26). Skala's invention promises to simplify air-traffic even further, to solve the selectivity problem of listeners-in, to open the field of wireless telephony as a substitute for common wire service...
...favoring the adoption of the metric system is wide and notable. It includes among scientists Thomas A. Edison, Luther Burbank and Glenn H. Curtiss. It includes Leonard Wood and Admiral Sims. It includes Elihu Root, John Barton Payne, Newton D. Baker and William G. McAdoo. It included John Hays Hammond and Samuel Vauclain. It includes Arthur Brisbane and Dr. Frank Crane, and includes General Pershing, who saw the A. E. F. acquire the use of it in France and found it both convenient and not too hard to learn. Its proponents argue for it that no country that adopted...
...Ball for the benefit of the Children's Hospital. They did not dance* but received many friends in their box. Other notables at the ball included Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, a large part of the diplomatic corps, Senator and Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Rinehart...
...Confirmed the nomination of Ogden H. Hammond to be Ambassador to Spain...