Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 15-16--Intercollegiate Meet at New York
...Leopold's visit of state last week was its essence, whereas his informal visit to London last March was quietly devoted to the big business of setting up by treaty Belgium's present status as a neutral, protected in 1937 by British, French and German guarantees (TIME, April 5 et seq.). On quiet visits to London came last fortnight little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and King George II of Greece...
...Royal Highness Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, 39, and cousin of King-Emperor Vittorio Emanuele III, was appointed by Benito Mussolini last week to be Viceroy of Ethiopia, replacing bomb-wounded Marshal Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, March i, April...
...King's work, well-known and highly regarded among biochemists, was described two years ago in Outposts of Science, an omnibus of science for laymen by Bernard Jaffe (a chemist himself). Jaffe unequivocally credited King and his coworker, William A. Waugh, with first obtaining the pure vitamin: "On April 4, 1932, after seven years of continuous work, King finally isolated fifty milligrams from one litre of lemon juice, and identified the pure crystals. . . . Before scientists gathered at a meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemistry at Philadelphia, King described his method and exhibited some of the crystals...
...report showed that Frank Kolbe had liquidated his holdings in the syndicate on Sept. 13 by selling several batches of securities, including 253,813 shares of Alleghany common which cost him $507,626 last April. To finance this hefty purchase he had borrowed $300,000 when Alleghany was selling at $4.50 a share and there were high hopes that the system's ponderous corporate superstructure could be simplified. Since May, however, Alleghany common has fallen as low as $1 and simplification plans have bogged down in a morass of counterproposals, Senatorial investigations and court injunctions. Under such circumstances...