Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side room under guard of a paunchy Capitol policeman. All that day and all the next Mr. Jurney searched in vain, though Mr. MacCracken's whereabouts were anything but a secret. For several hours he was seated in the office of the clerk of the District of Columbia Supreme Court but Mr. Jurney did not want to look for him there. The fact was that Mr. MacCracken's lawyer, smart, dapper Frank J. Hogan, whose defense of Albert Fall and Edward L. Doheny made him the Senate's No. 1 antagonist, was playing a game with...
Monday morning, however, all were reunited in the court of Justice Daniel O'Donoghue of the District of Columbia Supreme Court: Mr. MacCracken, Sergeant Jurney, Lawyer Hogan and Lawyer Garnett. The Justice heard the tale, then ruled that: 1) Mr. MacCracken had been not arrested but had been trespassing in Sergeant Jurney's home; 2) The habeas corpus writ should be dismissed; 3) Mr. MacCracken had secured the writ under false pretenses and therefore was guilty of contempt of court and should be fined $100. Further indication that Lawyer Hogan had outsmarted not the Senate...
...week U. S. chemists and physicists girded up their loins for war on their British colleagues. A U. S. discoverer's right to name his own discovery had been challenged from abroad. Scientific relations between the two countries were described as "very tense." Professor Harold Clayton Urey* of Columbia University has baptized the isotope of heavy hydrogen he discovered two years ago deuterium (Greek deuteros, second). He wants deuteron or deuton to be the name of its atomic nucleus. Discussing the matter last December before the Royal Society, Lord Rutherford, head of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, said...
Caught in the wake of a fast Crimson team, the Columbia swimmers found themselves on the short end of a 49-22 score Saturday night, after the best meet seen in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool this year. Captain Ed Stowell and Vic Leventritt provided two of the many thrills of the evening when both of them lowered their records to close to the pool marks...
...fifty in which George Scott came through to beat Eugene Jennings, the Lion sprint flash, by a matter of inches. Another close race was between Ed Devereux and Tom Wright, in the furlong, which the latter finally won by only a few feet. In the quarter-mile, however, the Columbia swimmer had an easy time...