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...Boston, Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts seized th opportunity to educate New England He summoned a conference of New England governors, to which came Governor Brewster of Maine and minor dignitaries from three other states. The aura of importance was supplied John Hays Hammond, Chairman of the Fact Finding Commission appointed by President Coolidge in 1923, Ulyssean councillor, who, after protesting that he in no way represented President. Coolidge, consented to take the chair...
...Anthracite," said Mr. Hammond, "has always been a fetish in New England until the last year or two." "Too long," said Governor Fuller, "our section of the country has stuck to anthracite while other sections never use it." "Anthracite" said Mr. Hammond, "is a luxury and not to be indulged in at too great a cost. We have plenty of substitutes" ?meaning bituminous (soft) coal, coke, fuel-oil. That was the lesson Governor Fuller desired to have expounded...
...command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they play, but a crisp, living, leaping engine of wire strings and felted hammers. Such a dream-piano may have been made incarnate by InventorJohn Hays Hammond Jr., "smart son of a smart father", (TIME, Aug. 17, AERONAUTICS). Last week he gave his name to a pedal...
...Inventor Hammond has perfected for the piano a device which enables the player to have control over notes after he has struck them. It is operated by a fourth pedal, the "Hammond Pedal", which opens and closes an arrangement of parallel revolving slats on the roof of the soundproof case much as the old-fashioned window-shutter was manipulated by its spindle. Since the case is soundproof, the tone can be built up within the pianoforte, its volume depending on the angle of the shutter) and allowed to escape at the will of the player. Again, the reflector can return...
...Admiral and Mrs. Eberle (for dinner); William C. Deniing, head of the Civil Service Commission (to discuss a successor for Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener - see WOMEN) ; Congressman William E. Hull of Illinois, shortly to sail for Buenos Aires as a member of the Pan-American Highway Commission; John Hays Hammond Jr., inventor (to discuss commercial aviation-see AERONAUTICS) ; Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent; Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget; .Secretary Hoover, recently returned from the West, to present Mr. Coolidge with an invitation to visit California; Senator George H. Moses...