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Guglielmo Marconi, Irish-Italian wireless inventor, financier, deftly subdued last week's meeting of petulant stockholders in his Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. The meeting took place in the spacious assembly hall of Connaught Rooms, in London's West End. Signor Marconi presided as chairman of the board of directors...
...dare to publish the facts I have got of the colossal mismanagement of this company," shouted one Charles L. Norden. He referred, of course, to the old scandals of British politicians jobbing Marconi Wireless stock for their own as well as Government profit. The company, with 60 subsidiaries, has lost money, forcing stockholders to endure three refinancings; and now they were asked to approve a fourth-to reduce the values of their shares from ?4,000,000 to ?2,374,954. Grief over stockholders' losses and suspicion of financial monkey-business caused shareholder Norden's outburst...
...Haiti of the Colombian line neared St. Thomas harbor in the Virgin Islands, a dove, flying aimlessly far from land, alit on the deck. Wireless Operator William D. Collins occupied his idle hours cooing, chirruping, making enticing gestures with his fingers. The dove's hunger overcame its distrust when the man offered crumbs in his palm. The man, thinking the small creature loved him, felt benevolent, like...
...When Wireless Operator Collins saw feathers and found what was in the cubby hole, he felt more than ever like God. He hunted Sheik, who arched against his leg as usual, purring in mad anticipation of a caress. He carried Sheik to the wireless room, muttering. He arranged some wires, glared at the "murderer" and loosed the lightning of righteousness. It was Omnipotence to swing the white corpse by its tail and hurl it at the sky, a falling thing in the wide heavens, a pitching clot for the sharks...
...prosperity reached a point where bread-&-butter education is decreasingly in demand? The Department of the Interior published a survey of private business and commercial schools. Enrollments had fallen off from 32% to 61% in five years. Classes in bookkeeping, stenography, accounting and salesmanship were particularly diminished. Wireless telegraphy showed the greatest decrease, 67%. . . . Partial explanation: public high schools have opened courses in many a commercial subject...