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Senator Edge debated with Senator Dill (dry) by radio. Mr. Edge also set out to get a hearing for a modification bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Association against the prohibition amendment announced a "face-the-facts" conference to meet in Washington...
...annual international radio tests were conducted last week with indifferent success. The sun, undergoing its periodic attack of solar acne, discharged from its sunspots enormous masses of positive electrons, which swept into the far-flying signal waves with disruptive effect.* There was an earthquake in the Pacific one night which caused further blurring of communication; and two nights running, ships in distress on the storm-tossed Atlantic silenced all stations with their stark, tragic S.O.S.† The European program was flashed from stations in England, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. In Berlin, portly opera singers were obliged to loiter over...
...radio world was optimistic. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The day will come when all that is necessary to hear the King's speech to Parliament or the snort of the sacred white elephant in Siam will be to tune...
...wandered to George Bruce Cortelyou, former Secretary of the Treasury (1907-09), President of the Consolidated Gas Co. of New York; and Owen Young, one of the U. S. investigators of the German Budget, and Chairman of the board of both the General Electric Co. and the Radio Corporation of America. Both of these gentlemen were seated prominently at the speaker's table. While waiting for them to speak, the picturesque career of handsome, well-groomed Mr. Cortelyou was envisioned by many of his intimates to those not so circumstanced...
...over the U. S. they came together, 67 groups, big and little, of Boston Tech men in their own home cities; and sat down to their dinners, heard the radios being tuned in, and pushed back their chairs, lit their cigars, waited for the big speech of the evening. The main dinner of the evening was being held in Manhattan, but it was an "All-Technology Phantom Radio Dinner" such as only technical men could imagine, devise and carry out. An interlocking chain of broadcasting stations brought them all together, from Massachusetts to California. The main speaker of the evening...