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Last week, speaking at a Manhattan banquet of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, ruddy, banjo-eyed Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander A. Troyanovsky skipped lightly across History and Political Philosophy. He quoted Abraham Lincoln as to how often one can fool all & some of the people.* He unearthed the fact that Russia's Empress Catherine II was disgusted by the American Revolution and refused to recognize the U. S. He said that the U. S. Declaration of Independence was the "first official recognition of the equality of all human beings, including...
John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at the instigation of Pope Pius...
...Einstein universe the velocity of light is regarded as a fundamental constant. Ten years ago Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson clocked the velocity of light between two mountains in California, got an average result of 186,284.45 mi. per sec. For further precision he built a mile-long vacuum tube. Before the measurements were complete he died. Grizzled Dr. Francis Gladheim Pease of Mt. Wilson and Fred Pearson, longtime Michelson assistant, carried on. Two years ago they announced that their measurements were showing systematic variations, an astounding situation which raised the question of whether light speed was a constant after...
Harvard will support the negative in the debate, which will be at 8 o'clock at the Abraham Lincoln School in North Cambridge. The judges will be Professor Copithorne of M. I. T. Judge Green of the Middlesex Probate Court, and Mr. Eastman of the Callinan Society...
...Died. Abraham ("Abe") Ruef, 71, onetime (1901-07) "Curly Boss" of San Francisco; in San Francisco. From police court lawyer, he rose to head the Union Labor Party, secured the election of a popular musician as mayor, established headquarters in a French restaurant, "The Pup," where he blandly collected huge honoraria from those wanting special privilege. Confronted by evidence, Ruef fled, was caught, finally convicted of bribery. Paroled in 1915 from San Quentin, where he taught Bible classes, he entered real estate, piled up a comfortable legal fortune...