Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month onetime Lieut. Commander John Semer ("Dodo") Farnsworth, dishonorably discharged from the U. S. Navy in 1927, was arrested by the Department of Justice, accused of betraying Navy secrets to Japan (TIME, July 27). The District of Columbia's Grand Jury shortly indicted this jittery alcoholic on the charge that he sold to the Japanese a confidential Naval document entitled The Service of Information and Security. Last week the Grand Jury indicted Farnsworth on the more serious charge of conspiracy. Named were two of Farnsworth's clients: Commander Yosiyuki Itimiya, assistant Naval attaché at the Japanese...
...head the Republicans' darktown drive in the East. He was Francis Ellis Rivers, son of the last Negro member of the Tennessee Legislature. He graduated from Yale (Class of 1915) with a Phi Beta Kappa, won a lieutenant's commission during the War, got a degree from Columbia University's Law School, has sat in the New York Legislature. Able and up-to-date Republican Rivers promptly adopted a brain trust including Charles E. Mitchell, onetime Minister to Liberia, Oliver Randolph, onetime member of the New Jersey Legislature, and his own brother Dr. Mark E. Rivers...
...Fermi had arrived in the U. S. to take charge of summer work in physics at Columbia, and that University was eager to let the world know that it was harboring for a few weeks Italy's foremost researcher on the physics of the atom. Since artificial radioactivity was discovered by the Curie-Joliots of Paris (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934), Dr. Fermi by bombardments with neutrons has induced radioactivity in more elements (about 40) than any other scientist...
Neutrons have about the same mass as the heart of a hydrogen atom, but they are much smaller. Dr. George Braxton Pegram and his associates at Columbia have set the neutron diameter at one ten-trillionth of an inch. Unlike electrons, positrons, protons and deuterons, neutrons have no electric charge. Hence they make splendid projectiles for bombardment since they are not repelled by the positive charges on the atomic nuclei. Alpha particles knock neutrons in quantity out of beryllium and other light elements at speeds up to 30,000 miles per second. When the neutron hits a nucleus it either...
Died, Representative John Jackson McSwain, of South Carolina, 61, since 1932 chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee; of heart attack; in Columbia...