WANT CITY GRAFT, HEARINGS PUBIC.
New York Times. May 17, 1921
City officials and members of the Meyer Investigation Committee clashed yesterday over the right of the committee to hold examination in secret and also over the right of the minority members of the Legislature to be represented on any sub-committees that may be appointed by the full committee.
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MEYER COMMITTEE CAN'T FIND ENRIGHT.
New York Times. Jun 18, 1921
Unable to get the records they desire from the Police Department, the Joint Legislative Investigation Committee yesterday decided to call Police Commissioner Richard E. Enright and put him on the grill.
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WILSON'S CABLEGRAMS FROM PARIS.
New York Times. Nov 27, 1921
YESTERDAY'S instalment of Mr. Tumulty's story of Woodrow Wilson contained the beginning of the series of cablegrams that passed between the White House and Paris while the President was at the Peace Conference.
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BROADCASTING TO MILLIONS.
New York Times. Feb 19, 1922
ALTHOUGH radio telephony and its phraseology, broadcasting, serial antennae and wave lengths, are almost as common topics of conversation today as the Eighteenth Amendment, one-half of 1 per cent., and Mr. Volstead, it is extremely hard, even ...
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LINCOLN'S WIDOW WROTE OF POVERTY.
New York Times. Dec 17, 1922
Two letters from Mrs. Abraham Lincoln written shortly after the assassination of her husband showing plainly her pecuniary distress, have been found by B. Sherman Fowler, a composer, of 31 East Forty-ninth Street, in a secret compartment of an old rosewood desk.
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HIGH TENSION WIRES TRANSMIT THE VOICE.
New York Times. Dec 31, 1922
BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 30.--The successful transmission of voice over electric power lines carrying 70,000 volts by means of carrier current, a new development of radio, was announced here today by the General Electric Company.
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COMPLEXITIES OF SIMPLE LIFE; EX-NEW YORKERS AS FARMERS.
New York Times. Apr 1, 1923
WHEN the wife and I decided that we could not keep up with the New York grame of swank, and that it was not worth while anyway, "we began looking for an escape to the simple life. Columns of newspaper guff, have been written about the "lure," the "subtle charm," the "pitiless enchantment" of "Little Old New York."
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PRINTING TELEGRAPH GIVES RADIO PRIVACY.
New York Times. Nov 10, 1923
CHICAGO, Nov. 9 (Associated Press). -- Privacy in radio communication by means of a standard land-line printing telegraph machine, was demonstrated today by Chicago experts before the convention of the Association of Railway Electrical Engineers.
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BELL CALLS ATTENDANT WHEN STATIONS BROADCAST.
New York Times. Mar 2, 1924
WHEN the telephone was being developed back in the '70s one of the first advances was the provision of a bell to call the subscriber. In radio communication a bell ham not been important in the past because operators have been required by law to stand watch at commercial stations.
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DEALERS OPPOSE SECRET RADIO PLAN.
New York Times. May 20, 1924
Comment in radio broadcasting offices yesterday over the announcement from Rome that John Hays Hammond Jr., had demonstrated before naval and military authorities a system of sending secret radio messages ran for the most part to the direction that except for military and a certain narrow line of commercial purposes, the invention could not be used in this country without overturning the radio industry.
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MANY MINDS AIDED IN CAPTURING RADIO.
New York Times. May 10, 1925
RADIO is the youngest and the most precocious of our industries. It is the most fantastic. Five years ago it was too insignificant to be classified separately by statisticians; last year the people of this country paid a million dollars a day for radio sets and parts.
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ENGLAND TALKS TO US BY WIRELESS PHONE.
New York Times. Feb 12, 1926
LONDON, Feb. 11. -- The transatlantic conversation by wireless between the new British station at Rugby and an American station on Long Island was carried on successfully Sunday, according to a correspondent of The Daily Telegraph who writes:
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BERNARD SHAW SHRINKS FROM HIS WIDE RENOWN.
New York Times. May 2, 1926
BERNARD SHAW has taken out a monomark, a new device for the identification of human beings and their belongings.
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SERIES SCORE-BOARD NO LONGER BIG LURE.
New York Times. Oct 6, 1926
There were few visible indications in this city yesterday that a world's series was in progress. In fact, the only place in town where there was any unusual congregation of fans was in City Hall Park, where a good sized and restless crowd watched the posting of returns in Park Row.
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BOOK ON NOTABLES MAKES LONDON GASP.
New York Times. Nov 20, 1926
LONDON, Nov. 19. -- Woodrow Wilson, Lady Astor, Walter Hines Page and Mark Twain figure, with European monarchs, statesmen and other world-famous celebrities, in "The Whispering Gallery," a book by an unnamed author, which, published today, is the sensation of the hour here, and is inspiring the question. "Who wrote it?" from thousands of readers who are chuckling with glee, gasping with amazement or quivering with anger as they peruse its pages.
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TALKS BY TELEPHONE OVERSEAS NOT SECRET.
New York Times. Jan 4, 1927
LONDON, Jan. 3. -- Although no official announcement has been made as yet, it is expected here that the official date for opening the transatlantic telephone service will be made public some day this week. Simultaneous publication of the official announcement will be made on both sides of the Atlantic.
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TOPICS IN WALL STREET..
New York Times. Jan 8, 1927
An orderly advance in many of the market leaders featured trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. Just before the close there was a fairly impressive demonstration of strength in the general list, but up to that time the activity, while at times quite brisk, was confined to a limited number of high-grade industrial and railway issues.
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RADIOPHONE SERVICE SHOWS MARKED GAIN.
New York Times. Jan 9, 1927
New York and London resumed their telephonic conversations yesterday under conditions more favorable than marked the opening of the radiophone service between the hemispheres on Friday. Sixteen calls were completed, the voices carrying with distinctness that amazed some callers.
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GLASGOW LISTENS TO SOUND OF FACES.
New York Times. Feb 4, 1927
GLASGOW, Feb. 3. -- John Baird, inventor of television, told the home folks of Glasgow about it tonight. When he ventured to tell some of them several years ago that it might be possible to see through brick walls they answered him with the Scottish equivalent of "What's eating you?" and let it go at that.
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NEW YORK-LONDON PHONE HAS BUSY FIST MONTH.
New York Times. Feb 13, 1927
WHEN a busy New Yorker picks up the telephone receiver and asks for London -- yes, operator, Picadilly 2215, London -- it usually takes about five minutes to put his connection through. between noon and one o'clock he may have to wait a few minutes longer.
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LEGAL RIGHTS OF BROADCASTERS DISCUSSED BY JUDGE DAVIS
New York Times. Jun 12, 1927
WITH radio litigation likely to result from the administration of the new radio law even to the probability of the constitutionality of the act itself being tested, counsel will likely regard the new book of Judge Stephen B. Davis, "Law of Radio Communication," as a valuable precedent, inasmuch as it is believed to be the first study of its kind ever printed.
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THE WHITE HOUSE RENEWS ITS YOUTH.
New York Times. Sep 11, 1927
ONCE more a President returns to a "new" White House. Since his exile early in March, Calvin Coolidge has lived for a few months on Dupont Circle and for the uceeeding weeks in the rugged hills of South Dkota.
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LAYS CURB ON RADIO TO FEAR OF HOOVER.
New York Times. Mar 31, 1928
The recent Congressional interference with the control of radio broadcasting by the Department of Commerce was actuated by fear that retention of control by the department would aid Secretary Hoover in his campaign for the Republican nomination for President. Major Gen.
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