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...Danger! High Voltage!" appeared before the reporter. When the door on which is this sign was thrown open an immense storage battery producing a potential of 10,000 volts used in X-ray research was revealed. This battery is the largest in the world...
COUNTY OF NEW YORK RAY LONG, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am the Editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, and, as such, negotiated for the preparation and publication by the Cosmopolitan Magazine of the manuscripts by Calvin Coolidge. To the best of my knowledge and belief, every line of the manuscripts by Calvin Coolidge which have been delivered to me by the ex-President and which have been published in the Cosmopolitan Magazine was written by Mr. Coolidge himself. In fact, from my personal knowledge, I am able to state that neither of his secretaries knew of the existence...
...President Hoover went Virginia fishing license No. 172,523. To his fishing friend, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, went license No. 172,-524. ¶ For Senor Pablo Ramirez, Chilean Minister of Finance, President Hoover gave a White House luncheon. Senor Ramirez is touring the U. S. in the interest of Chilean nitrate...
Distribution of the questionnaire came on the heels of statements by Ray Barbuti, Olympic 440-metre champion, although officials said the one had nothing to do with the other. Barbuti, suspended by the A. A. U. recently after criticism of amateur conditions, charged in the April number of Sportsmanship (a magazine published by the Sportsmanship Brotherhood) that amateur athletics often are paid by promoters. The payments are arranged through intermediaries, he said, and paid in cash. Payments run as high as $500, he declared. He asked a thorough investigation and remedial measures. Later, however, he refused to give names...
...Churchill, British Minister of War during "the" war, describes it in terms of exasperation, cynicism, vitriolic indignation. Though he was at the Peace Conference only toward the end, for the discussion of Soviet Russia, his opinion of the whole fiasco is nonetheless violent. He spits fire upon Wilson Biographer Ray Stannard Baker's smugness: "Mr. Baker detracts from the vindication of his hero by the absurd scenario picture which he has chosen to paint. Wilson's share in the Peace Conference, his hopes, his mistakes, his achievements, his compromises and his disasters are worthy of something better than...