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Capable son of a capable father, John Hays Hammond Jr. sailed in to the port of New York back from a fresh conquest. He came from Rome, ancient city of the Caesars and brought back a triumph...
...Majestic (White Star)&#!51;Charles B. Dillingham, famed theatrical manager; John Hays Hammond, famed mining engineer...
...Percy Hammond: ". . . It is a terrible, childish, discouraging mess. Summer has come...
...Narrowcasting," applied to the new developments of Marconi and young J. Hammond Smith, in which person-to-person reception is secured by tuning out all but the desired station, is another possible addition to the radio vocabulary...
Theodore E. Burton, Congressman from Ohio: "The keynote speech which I made at the Republican National Convention found little favor with Percy Hammond and Franklin Pierce Adams, two famed Manhattan colyumists. Said Hammond: 'The keynote speech of Congressman Burton. . . an aged man, was a complete assemblage of all the honest and senile platitudes. . . It was the longest, dullest speech that I have ever heard.' Said Adams: 'Over the radio, applause for a platitude sounds even sillier than it does when you're one of the applauders yourself...