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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successful scientific enterprise usually begins as a dream. Then there is a turning point at which it ceases to be a dream, begins to take on the lineaments of reality. The point may be the conquest of a crucial technical obstacle-as when Corning Glass Works succeeded in casting a 20-ton glass disc for Caltech's 200-inch telescope. Or it may be a crucial matter of dollars. Last week University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, newest U. S. Nobel Prizeman, passed such a turning point when it was disclosed that the Rockefeller Foundation would give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dollars for Atoms | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

From start to finish there was no doubt that the Hull agreements would go through, materially unchanged, for, although the fight was close, too many men on both sides were determined not to let it end in Mr. Hull's defeat. Most crucial vote came on an amendment by Nevada's florid Key Pittman to permit the Senate to ratify all future agreements as treaties, by a two-thirds vote. Mr. Pittman talked with straight face of the unconstitutionally of delegating this old Senate power, although he has voted consistently for such delegations throughout the last seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hull Wins | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Through long evolution, the various functions of the Dean's Office have been split up among the eight College deans, though most crucial problems ultimately find their way to Dean Hanford's desk. To keep in touch with undergraduates, the University Hall mentors last year held more than 6,720 conferences with students, kept them waiting for at least 1,120 hours on the back-breaking benches in University...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: Dean's Office, the Hub of Undergraduate Life | 3/28/1940 | See Source »

Describing the Logan Bill which is now awaiting action from both houses of Congress as impractical and inadequate, Dean Landis spoke last night in Langdell Hall on the subject "Crucial Issues in Administrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Landis Declares Logan Bill Tends To Curb Agencies | 3/28/1940 | See Source »

Dean Landis, of the Law School, will give a free, public lecture tomorrow night on the subject "Crucial Issues in Administrative Law," at 8 o'clock in the Court Room of Langdell Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Landis Lectures Tomorrow About Administrative Law | 3/27/1940 | See Source »

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