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...Only one other Labor peer was created last week, Major Dudley Leigh Aman, by profession a wireless expert, who did yeoman service as a speaker during the last General election. With Baron Ponsonby and Baron Aman the number of Laborites in the House of Lords is now 14, as against approximately 500 Conservatives and 90 Liberals. It had been rumored that Scot MacDonald would "advise" (i.e. instruct) the King to create 100 Labor peers, but the public excitement sure to follow such a perfectly justifiable move was deemed not worth risking until Labor has an overwhelming majority in the House...
...moralist, he has said: "In no other profession [besides Business], not excepting the ministry and the law, is the need for wide information, broad sympathies and directed imagination so great." Always that kind of a business man, he has foreseen the necessity of national communications monopoly, wires and wireless, government-controlled if not government-owned, to meet world competition...
External Monopoly: A merger of Radio's wireless, International Telephone & Telegraph's wireless and cable. Western Union's cable. (Radio would sell its wireless to I. T. & T. now if the U. S. radio law did not forbid.) Advantages...
...Ability to meet world-wide competition of consolidated foreign units like Britain's Cables & Wireless...
...present Duc was graduated by the French Naval Academy. He retired to specialize in physics, returned to the navy at the outbreak of the War, in which he won the tiny but coveted rosette of the Legion of Honor for his invention of a wireless receiver for submerged submarines. Last week's prize of $46,299 was awarded for his theory of wave mechanics in the problem of atomic constituion. Roughly and as elaborated by other researches, the Due de Broglie's theory is that matter consists of a series of waves as well as of corpuscles...