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...Tuskegee last fortnight went the Institute's trustees, led by their white chairman, William Jay Schieffelin of New York City. They hoped to persuade Dr. Moton to stay on but, if he refused, their minds were made up. He did refuse. Last week Tuskegee learned that Frederick Douglass Patterson, 34, would be its third president...
...Delaware, the House of Representatives voted 22-to-12 to endorse Governor C. (for Clayton) Douglass Buck for the Presidential nomination. An in-law of the du Ponts who rule the State, quiet, handsome Governor Buck reciprocated by recommending that Legislators raise their daily pay from $10 to $20. No one seriously expected tiny Delaware to win a Presidential nomination; the legislature's move was chiefly a precautionary one to tie up to a "favorite...
Though Andrew Ellicott Douglass is a capable astronomer and director of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, he is most widely renowned for his pioneer work on the growth of tree rings. More than three decades ago Dr. Douglass had a great hunch and started examining the rings on yellow pines. By the time he had made 10,000 meticulous measurements and compared them with weather records he had verified what he suspected from the first-that the thickness of each year's growth ring is proportional to the amount of rainfall that year. It was clear...
...Douglass was now able to settle controversies about the age of Indian dwellings, by matching their timbers against his charts. There were some pueblos about whose age archeologists disagreed by centuries. Dr. Douglass examined the logs of one, reported: "The wood for this dwelling was cut in the year 1260 A. D." But what interested the Carnegie Institution most was his finding evidence of periodicity in his charts which led him to believe that weather might repeat itself in cycles, and his invention of a way to detect and analyze such cycles...
Last week University of Arizona officials announced that, by arrangement with the Carnegie Institution which will pay his salary and provide him with three assistants, Dr. Douglass will be detached from his astronomical duties to devote all his time to an intensive two-year program of cycle analysis looking toward long-range weather forecasting...