Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan white-haired Dr, Frederick Albert Cook, 71, listing himself as an anthropologist, physician, author, journalist and lecturer, filed a damage suit for $125,000 against the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Writer Jeanette Mirsky, the Viking Press and Houghton Mifflin Co. for "discrediting" his claim to the "discovery" of the North Pole in 1908. Generally considered the master impostor of his time, jailed in 1925-30 for using the mails to defraud in connection with oil-stock swindling, Dr. Cook declared: "Before I die I must clear my good name...
...great German family name in St. Louis is Taussig. Some are Gentiles, some Jews, some a mixture of both. Most eminent of the last are the doctor Brothers Taussig: Internist Albert Ernst, 64, a Unitarian; Gynecologist Frederick Joseph, 63, an Ethical Culturist. Like most male St. Louis Taussigs, both brothers went to Harvard for undergraduate education. They, and later Albert's two sons, returned to Washington University for medical training. Orphans of a wealthy Jewish banker-broker, reared by two spinster aunts, they lived well at school, got a running start in the practice of medicine...
...handsome man, grey and bespectacled of average height and solidly built, Dr. Fred dresses with extreme care, in contrast to tall, cadaverous Dr. Albert. The late, great Jane Addams always was houseguest of the Fred Taussigs when she went to St. Louis. Because he is so strict and meticulous in his clinical work, students and younger gynecologists who work with Dr. Fred in clinics consider him old-maidish. Internist Albert is considered to have a larger practice than Gynecologist Fred...
...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...
...with Herbert Hoover, a notable change in the past three years has come over the public demeanor of Professor Albert Einstein. Whereas he was once almost as frozen and frightened in the presence of strangers and newshawks as was the onetime President of the U. S., the German mathematician now chuckles, gestures, jokes, smokes in public with considerable self-assurance. Last May Dr. Einstein made the short journey from Princeton to Philadelphia to receive the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute. A throng of scientists and dignitaries was assembled to hear what the medalist had to say. Einstein genially informed...