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...Official Secrets Act would be applied, making him liable to a two-year prison sentence. Sandys refused. The Army Council then created a three-man board of inquiry, headed by General Sir Edmund Ironside, governor and commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, which promptly summoned the M. P. to appear for trial...
...Administration wanted them unified. Of more immediate concern was a belief that the various stiff restrictions on bank investments might explain the fact that today U. S. banks have $2,780,000,000 in excess reserves sitting idle. This second idea of Mr. Roosevelt's did not appear until last fortnight. Until then a committee of underlings had been absorbed solely in the technicalities of unifying the existing examinations. Fortnight ago, in a letter to Senator Vandenburg, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles suggested that bank regulations should be loosened in depressions when credit is needed, tightened...
...June 13 issue of TIME in connection with an article describing the work of Dr. Charles H. Durfee, there occurs a picture - of me. To appear in the pages of TIME, even by mistake, is no slight honor, but the much" more distinguished gentleman for whom the picture was intended may be disappointed. To him, my regrets! WALTER H. DURFEE Dean...
Having recently completed a study of some aspects of Scadinavian foreign policies which will appear in book form next fall, Jones will leave Harvard to take up his duties with the foundation immediately...
...most productive years of a topflight theoretical physicist appear to be about the same as those of a championship tennis player. Most of the five bigwigs of Quantum Mechanics did their most important work when they were very young men. Heisenberg, for example, laid down his celebrated Uncertainty Principle (relating to the position and velocity of electrons) when he was 26; Dirac mathematically deduced the existence of the positive electron when he was 28. Once a theorist has constructed a powerful new theory, he is likely to become fond of it and spend much energy polishing and protecting...