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...giving money-worried Englishmen a bright diversion. In Albert Hall the convening scientists last week found a large statue of Faraday surrounded by his personal relics and devices built on his discoveries. Prime Minister MacDonald made an intercontinental radio talk in Faraday's memory, as did Sir William Bragg, Senator Guglielmo Marconi, Louis-Victor Due de Broglie, Professor Elihu Thomson. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories telephoned his transatlantic respects from Manhattan...
...doubtful if he ever read a book on tactics; but he fought like the devil. Biographer Lytle, strong Forrest partisan, implies that if Forrest's abilities had been recognized in time the western campaign might have had a different outcome. But Forrest's commander was General Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them. And I will hold you personally responsible for any further indignities you try to inflict on me. You have...
...Hotsy-Totsy, owned by Victor Kliesrath of Bragg-Kliesrath Co. (automobile brakes): the annual Gold Cup race for 625 cu. in. power boats; the first National Motor Boat Sweepstakes, at Red Bank, N. J., averaging 52 & 56 m.p.h...
When the American Physical Society met last week at Cornell University (Ithaca, N. Y.) they were read momentous pages from Faraday's unpublished diary. The reader: Sir William Bragg, onetime Nobel Prizeman, England's foremost living physicist, who owns the diary...
June 10 ? At Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. June 10 ? At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Speaker: Sir William H. Bragg...