Word: belgenland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Dr. Albert Einstein declared from the S. S. Belgenland last week that a better balance between producer and consumer was the world's most pressing problem in 1930 (see below), the man whom he was coming to visit, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, said the same thing in a speech to the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents, meeting in Manhattan. Cause of Unemployment, he recited, is overproduction, inevitable result of the War. Although Science, the builder of machinery, has often been held responsible for taking...
...California Institute of Technology ("Caltech") in Pasadena for a scientific chat. One of the three, Dr. Albert Einstein, has a long way to travel. On Dec. 2, he, his wife Frau Elsa Einstein and his research assistant Dr. Walter Mayer (TIME, Oct. 27) will go aboard the Belgenland, have a month's boat ride to California via Panama. Frau Einstein will act as guard to keep the public from annoying her husband, will not permit him to go ashore in New York. The other two distinguished gentlemen are already in California. One is Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, on leave...
...captain radioed insistently that he was not. New York City authorities cabled his picture and history to Britain. Result: violent British excitement at the approach of a U. S. gangster famed nearly as much as "Scarface Al" Capone himself. At the height of the excitement, the S. S. Belgenland came into Plymouth, England. One of her passengers, registered as "John T. Nolan," said he was Diamond, told newshawks: "I have stomach and liver trouble. . . . The reason of my visit is to go to Vichy and take the cure. ... I only wanted to stage a fadeout. I don't want...