Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radicals is the "old" Freeman edited by Albert Jay Nock. It kept a circulation of about 10,000 until 1924, when Mrs. Francis Neilson decided that she could play "angel" no longer. Last year the magazine was revived as The New Freeman by Peter Fireman, a Russian-born chemist who came to the U. S. 49 years ago and amassed moderate wealth in the paint business (Magnetic Pigment Co. of Trenton...
...chemist by training, Alcoholman Adams entered industry via Wall street. He was graduated from Yale in 1904, in 1910 was made a member of Callaway, Fish & Co.. Manhattan. Eight years later he was made Air Reduction's treasurer. Chairman of the company is his older brother, Frederick Baldwin Adams. Alcohol has had no president since Russell R. Brown resigned last January, a fact which adds to Mr. Adams' duties. But he always appears cool, extremely neat, does not look his 50 years. At Yale he was voted "most likely to succeed" by classmates who now also hail...
...monthly meeting of the New York Microscopical Society pursued its calm way fortnight ago until Dr. Maximilian Toch, michro-chemist, arose to speak. Dr. Toch's specialty is the analysis of paint, the verification of works of art by microphotography. To the assembled scientists he showed numerous lantern slides, explained his theory: a painting may be identified by magnification of the artist's brushstrokes, which are as characteristic as his handwriting. Like a firecracker came a specific statement: None of the Rembrandts in the Metropolitan Museum is genuine, with the possible exception of The Gilder from the Havemeyer Collection...
...John Charles Van Dyke, professor of the history of art in Rutgers University, announced that in his opinion there were no genuine Rembrandts in the Metropolitan; further, that there were only 35 genuine Rembrandts in the world.* And in the past six or seven years a Scotch chemist named Arthur P. Laurie has been travelling from museum to museum with his microscope, his X-ray and ultra violet machines, casting doubt upon half the Rembrandts of Europe...
Assistant curators insisted that the new label had nothing to do with the remarks of Micro-Chemist Toch, the painting had been reassigned to Drost (a Rembrandt pupil) several months ago when the picture was cleaned...