Word: amsterdam
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Died. Professor Pieter Zeeman, 78, Dutch winner of 1902's Nobel Prize in physics (for studies of light under magnetism); in Amsterdam. In 1933 he was preferred to Albert Einstein by the electors of the French Academy of Sciences...
Last week the Youth Commission of the Episcopal Church suggested a partial answer to this paramount question. The Commission cabled social-conscious Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, urged him "to initiate plans for a worldwide conference of Christian youth, similar in character and purpose to the Amsterdam Conference of 1939 [sponsored by worldwide Protestantism, attended by 1,300 youths from 70 countries], to be held at the earliest possible moment after hostilities cease." The Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop, Dr. Henry St. George Tucker, who is also President of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ...
...last year at Cambridge University, as midnight tolled, he sprinted around the "Great Court" of Trinity College (374⅔ yds.) before Trinity's clock finished chiming the hour. Next year at Amsterdam he won the Olympic 400-meter hurdles. Prewar voyagers on the Queen Mary could view a brass plate on the promenade deck recording Lord Burghley's dash around the quarter-mile deck in full evening dress-time: 58 sec. In 1931 he stood as a Conservative, was elected to the House of Commons. In 1932 he went to Los Angeles as captain of the British Olympic...
Last week, for the first time in its 23 years, New York State's famed, fulminous Boxing Commission had a Negro member. He was handsome, 49-year-old Dr. Clilan Powell, X-ray expert, editor of Harlem's Amsterdam News, director of Victory Mutual Life Insurance Co. (owned and operated exclusively by Negroes). Governor Dewey, whom Powell backed for the governorship, made the appointment. Other Boxing Commission appointments have been political; so might this one be. More to the point was the special justness of giving the Commission a one-third Negro say: of pro pugs today...
...equal legal and civic rights. Harlem's Roi Ottley, seven years a reporter for the Amsterdam News, summed up in his recently published New World A-Coming: "In a word, the Negro wants democracy." But nowhere was the way the Negro hopes to reach his goal clearly stated. Author Ottley, who shares most Negroes' belief that leadership must come from Franklin Roosevelt, confessed to a large uncertainty about the Negro's future...