Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were not given the chance. Though the Socialist union published a formal statement several days earlier offering full co-operation with the Government, important young Storm Troopers raided their headquarters throughout the Reich and marched 50 union leaders off to jail. Up popped Dr. Robert Ley, former chemist of the German dye trust and new Nazi chairman of the Committee of Action for the Protection of German Labor. "We are not to be fooled by Socialist foxy tricks," said he. "With the disappearance of the Socialist unions, the Social Democratic party will be permanently deprived of the soil in which...
...Corporation nominated, and the Harvard Overseers were sure to accept, James Bryant ("Jim") Conant, 40, as Harvard's 25th president. The choice reflected a decision in favor of oldtime. hard-driving intellect over new style business efficiency. James Conant is one of his country's foremost organic chemists. Born in Dorchester, Mass., son of an able wood-engraver, he took his Harvard A. B. (Class of 1914) in three years, magna cum laude. While taking his Ph. D. he was a teaching fellow. During the War he worked on gases, became a major in the Chemical Warfare Service...
...Johns Hopkins' deep, steep Hurd Memorial amphitheatre Sir Henry talked on "Progress in Autopharmacology." Notable in the audience was aging Dr. Alfred Robert Louis Dohme, 66, pharmaceutical chemist whose mother established the fund which brought Sir Henry to Baltimore in her husband's memory...
When a piece of iron or other substance is magnetized, the molecules yank one way. When the substance is demagnetized the molecules jerk helter-skelter. The magnetic yanking causes molecular friction and produces an appreciable amount of heat which Professor Wrilliam F. Giauque, University of California chemist, used last week to reach the lowest degree of cold yet attained...
Joseph Arthur Faurot, 59 and now retired from the New York City police force where in 1906 he introduced the standard system of fingerprint classification, invented the new clean fingerprinting. Dr. William Heinecke, Manhattan chemist, developed the chemical details. They hope to make money from sales of the pad and paper, for U. S. police and jailers alone fingerprint some 3,000 new prisoners daily, and by no means all finger-printing is criminological. Soldiers, sailors and Marines have their prints made routinely; also all Federal and many civil service employes. One of every 20 applicants for Federal service...