Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject which lends itself to long-winded diatribes and has already been debated to a frazzle. Secretary Wallace has warned Science that it had better consider taking a holiday. Scientists, including Caltech's Millikan, M. I. T.'s Karl Taylor Compton and Bell Telephone's Frank Baldwin Jewett have retorted that Science makes jobs by creating new industries. One of the most telling thrusts which defenders of Science have made against the bogey of "technological unemployment" is that after a half century of sweeping technological advance, a higher percentage of the U. S. population was gainfully employed...
Details such as neither U. S. nor United Kingdom journalists ever cable about the Royal Family appeared last week in the Toronto Star, whose M. H. Halton went to the latest Buckingham Palace garden party. Excerpts: "I'm sure Earl Baldwin didn't rent his clothes at Moss Brothers, because his pants looked as if they'd never been pressed. ... He looked very white and very tired, and it was interesting to see him and his wife shun the royalties and walk off among the flowers. . . . The King looked well cared for and healthy. . . . Most...
Weeping, shuddering, fainting at one point in the questioning. Murderer Dyer told how he had urged the girls to come with him into the Baldwin Hills where they would catch rabbits. They met him Saturday afternoon and walked back into the gullied wilderness where they built a fire. To catch the rabbits the girls were to be placed separately at different spots. "I left Jeanette and Melba sitting there, I took Madeline up the canyon. . . . After I choked her there with my hands ... I tied a piece of rope around her neck to make sure she was dead." Then...
...meeting was a vibrator which causes a battleship "to shiver like a man with the ague." The machine has two heavy weights rotating eccentrically so that vibrations are set up in all riveted joints or welded seams and unhealthy tremors exposed. Declared C. H. Gibbons, technical adviser to Baldwin-Southwork Corp.: "When this machine is attached to a battleship still under construction, it is possible to simulate the stresses and strains to which the ship would be submitted during a storm...
...Stanley Baldwin or Ramsay MacDonald had written Marriage, they would never have got to be Prime Ministers. Because Leon Blum is a Frenchman, authorship of this plain-speaking sex treatise, although known to Frenchmen for nearly 30 years, did him no political harm, may indeed have increased confidence in his ability to give leadership to an important French institution. Now, however, with Marriage still selling like wildfire. Premier Blum wishes people would forget he ever wrote the book. The national tittering is beginning to get on his nerves. What Frenchmen titter at is the self-portrait of youthful Poet-Journalist...