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Pudgy Jim Thomas started his career as an errand boy in a chemist's shop, became a wiper in a locomotive yard, later helped organize the railwaymen's union. It was Jim Thomas who made it possible for British railway employes to have the highest wage scale of any union in the realm. With James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden, Thomas was one of the founders of the British Labor Party. In the House of Commons since 1910, he has served as a Cabinet Minister for the past seven years...
...lack of New Deal animosity. A good many sessions were devoted to familiar Chemurgician products like soy beans, tung oil (for paint), Jerusalem artichokes (for alcohol), slash pine (for paper). A "Pioneer Cup" was awarded to Leo Hendrik Baekeland, father of the plastic industry (Bakelite), though that aging chemist did not bother to come out of his Florida retirement to receive it in person. Mr. Garvan delivered his usual harangue in favor of blending alcohol with gasoline. But most of the speakers were either technical experts or working vice presidents of corporations in the organic chemistry field, and they stuck...
...Chief Chemist, Union Starch & Refining...
Prize for Promise. The Langmuir Prize of $1,000 is awarded annually by the society to a chemist under 30 years of age who shows promise of an exceptionally brilliant career. Last week's winner was John Gamble Kirkwood, who was born in Gotebo, Okla. 29 years ago, got his Ph. D. at 23 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is now an assistant professor at Cornell. Of little interest to laymen, Dr. Kirkwood's work on the dielectric properties of gases under pressure and on polarization phenomena in methane, nitrogen and hydrogen provided invaluable working tools...
...Story of Louis Pasteur" combines accuracy with shrewd selection that keeps an eye on dramatic values. The result is a most moving account of the career of the humbly great French chemist. Paul Muni, with admirable insight and restraint, and an efficient camouflage of synthetic whiskers, gives us the determination, perseverance, and kindliness of the pioneer warrior against man's microscopic foes. Josephine Hutchinson is equally good in the role of the sympathetic, self-effacing wife...