Word: california
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen-and-a-half Senators gathered in the office of liberal, hell-roaring Isolationist Hiram Johnson of California, counseled there almost daily, swore to keep the U. S. out of that "entangling alliance." Last week, in the same room, around the same Hiram Johnson (but now conservative and weak-voiced) another dozen-and-a-half gathered, pledged themselves to U. S. isolation and to defense of the arms embargo...
Every now & then some pseudo-scientific jack-in-the-box pops up with an alleged death ray. Nearest approach to a real death ray is the 19-million-volt stream of subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...
Boxer Lou Nova, who spent three years at the California College of Agriculture, is a serious sort, reads books, diets, sleeps long, goes for some queer fangles in fighting. For the Baer fight, for example, he trained at the yoga roost of Dr. Pierre Bernard, the Omnipotent Oom of the Sunday supplements. Half an hour before the fight his handlers came into his dressing room, found him standing on his head-relaxing, he said. Thus relaxed, he handed Max quite a pasting. But Tony Galento, the Orange, N. J., barman, is most relaxed with a bung-starter in his hairy...
...President Frederick A. P. Barnard persuaded him into pedagogy. He lived to fulfill Dean Burgess' prediction, to expand Columbia from 5,000 to more than 32,000 students, to turn down the presidencies of Stanford and the State universities of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, Washington and California. Dr. Butler reports that Governor Leland Stanford of California offered him $25,000 to be Stanford's first president, when Dr. Butler was getting $3,500 as a Columbia professor...
...Systematic investigation of matter and energy without regard to immediate prac tical ends has turned out to be the most direct road to social riches." This is the basic thesis of Atoms In Action* published this week by George Russell Harrison, California-born professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "In the long run," says he, "digging for truth has always proved not only more interesting, but more profitable, than digging for gold. If urged on by the love of digging, one digs deeper than if searching for some particular nugget. Practicality is inevitably shortsighted, and is self-handicapped...