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...debonair Tugwell asserted that he was a real dirt farmer albeit the soil on his shoes came from an early morning stroll through his apple orchard and this week, Washington's No. 1 man, Richberg reveals he is a born conservative, dyed in the purple and to the manor bern. Meanwhile the sudden change fro m "End Poverty," to "End Prosperity," in Sinclair's slogan for California has resulted in a rebuff from Roosevelt which materially damages that picturesque purveyor of political panaceas' chances of election. An entertaining spectacle this, in all its ironic humor, but pertinent to this review...
...Munich, where his father was part-owner of an electrotechnical plant. When Albert was 15, family reverses took the Einsteins to Milan. There he left school to study art, then to Zurich to learn how to become a breadwinning engineer. In 1902 he got a job in the Bern Patent Office as engineer and technical adviser. Three years later, when he was 26, he published his cosmos-shaking Special Theory of Relativity in the Annals of Physics. His General Theory of Relativity was published in the midst of the War (1916), the Unitary Field Theory 13 years later. Though only...
With Secretary of War Bern ashore to observe and report on Rhode Island textile troubles (see p. 22), the President declared a week-end holiday from official business. On Sunday he invited Challenger Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith and Defender Harold Stirling Vanderbilt to tea aboard the Nourmahal, chatted about the disappointment of seeing the first race called for time, wished both sides the best of luck and better racing weather the coming week...
Walter Reed Hospital was the next stop. Bern of War, laid up with an ocular infection, was sitting up but he could not do any business. With Secretary Hull in Montevideo, Postmaster General Farley in Europe, two clays later the President discovered that for the first time in his Administration he could hold no Friday Cabinet meeting. There was no quorum. ¶Lewis Douglas went to the White House to talk Budget. He figured the Government would take in 3½ billions next year, disburse 2½ billions normally, have a billion left over to reduce the national debt...
Married. Harlean Carpenter McGrew Bern (Jean Harlow), 22, cinemactress, widow of MGM's Associate Producer Paul Bern Levy who last year spectacularly died by his own hand (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932); and Harold G. Rosson, cameraman; in Yuma, Ariz...