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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Verdun and the Meuse heights. A radical-socialist, his military career was much affected by political disfavor. In Syria (1925), dynamic as ever, he suddenly shelled rebellious sections of Damascus, reputedly killing 500 persons, including women and children, arousing worldwide protest. At his deathbed was famed Lieutenant Colonel Albert Dreyfus, victimized hero of "the Dreyfus case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...most scientific families, comparatively poor. Not much income ensues from his professorship at the Academy of Sciences or from his directorship at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. Yet the Einsteins, if they were really in need, might look with confidence to their very rich relatives, the Kochs and Dreyfuses of Germany and France. They are related to that Robert Koch (1843-1910) who discovered tuberculin and, after Louis Pasteur (1822-95), founded modern medicine. Alfred Dreyfus (1859-), of France's famed "Dreyfus case," is Dr. Einstein's cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Announcement was made last night of the election of G. W. Dreyfus '30 as second assistant manager of the Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Elects | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Sophomore class team: L. H. Lifehits '31, l. e.: W. T. Whitney '31, l. t.: E. S. Amazoen '31, l. g.: E. T. Brinkley '31, c.: C. W. Dreyfus '31, r. g.: H. W. Sibley '31, r. t,; Robert Dutton '31, r. e.: Waldron Post '31, q. b. A. B. Serino '31, l. h. b.: F. A. Beyer '31, r. h. b: P. A. Ketchum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS ARE DEFEATED BY 1931 FOOTBALL TEAM | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

...finer points of his late thieving trade? Well, so had many another expected, and moreover struggled well on his way to freedom when manhunters tracked him down, and goaded him back to the solitary confinement, disease and starvation of Devil's Island (famed for the incarceration of Dreyfus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Devil's Island | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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