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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Named for his adopted State and his native State by Virginia-born Physicist Fred Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute...
Meanwhile, in the Reich, would-be refugees continued to haunt U. S. consulates, searching U. S. telephone books for the addresses of Americans who might be their relatives. A typical letter received last week in the U. S.: "Dear Sir, "My name is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., and as my mother is a born G . . . . . . . and has relations in America, I think to be on the right address. I am 18 years of age, was born in Vienna and am of a very good family. By profession I am bodicemacer and am thoroughly versed in all commercial branches. I am perfect in German, English...
When German-born Professor Franz Weidenreich, famed digger for the Peking Man, told an anthropological conference at Copenhagen that all Europeans originally came from Palestine, the only other German present got up and left...
Jean Baptiste Perrin has studied the atom all his long life. Born at Lille during the Franco-Prussian War, he became a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Paris in 1910, became an expert on molecular oscillations and the Brownian movement (movement of visible particles in liquids because of impacts from flying molecules). In 1926 he was awarded a Nobel Prize. Today he is president of the French Academy of Sciences. Last week he announced the discovery of naturally occurring ekarhenium-element...
...these traits are traceable to William McChesney Martin Sr. That Kentucky-born fundamentalist worked his way through law school by teaching, soon shifted from law to banking, has long been president of the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis. This is a high-sounding but not very potent job and the Martins continue to live quietly in the modest three-story house at No. 5055 Waterman Avenue, a nice but not ultra-fashionable district...