Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York, who is perennially excited about alien infiltrations, charged that one Fritz Kuhn, onetime Ford Motor Co. chem ist, had organized a subversive army of 200,000 Nazis in the U. S. Discovered by newshawks in a Detroit office plastered with Nazi swastikas, Chemist Kuhn eagerly admitted that his Amerikadeuts-cher Volksbund had 200,000 members, but denied all connection with the German Government. "The main purpose of our organization," said he, "is to open the eyes of the American people to the dangers they are facing in the Communistic movement now under...
Altogether 36 gases were used in the War, of which about half a dozen showed high efficiency. All these chemicals were known before the War. Phosgene, for example, was first made by British Chemist John Davy in 1812. Making gas into a war weapon was not a matter of finding new compounds but of manufacturing known compounds on a great scale. With their splendidly developed chemical industry, the Germans had the edge throughout and Allied gas warfare was largely a series of belated retaliations. In their March 1918 offensive against the British the Germans fired half a million "Yellow Cross...
...calmly. The one shaft that got under his skin was that, almost alone in a socially-minded day, he took no interest in social problems. Chekhov certainly did not believe in Art for Propaganda's sake: he thought that "a writer should be just as objective as a chemist." But he surprised his critics by suddenly taking himself off to the Island of Sakhalin, Russian penal colony, and doing a book about conditions there which brought about reforms. With a sidelong glance at his critics, he said: "I am glad that these stiff prison overalls hang in my literary...
...Devanter. Though liberal colleagues may disagree violently with his conservative opinions, they listen with profound respect in conference when, out of the experience of his full quarter-century on the Court, he expounds history, procedure, precedents. As elementary to him as the formula for water is to a master chemist, is the judicial principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse...
President of Dow Chemical since his father died in 1930 has been Willard Henry Dow. 39, who last week was named a director of the American Chemical Society for 1938. A graduate of Michigan (Class of 1919), he worked as a Dow chemist for five years, became assistant general manager in 1926. Not the great chemist the late Dr. Herbert Henry Dow was, Son Willard Henry has maintained the secure and independent position of Dow Chemical Co. by proving himself a competent manager...