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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After two and a half years of postponement the Drinker-Emerson case comes before a Boston court today. It will be decided upon purely legal grounds in reference to patent laws but for the student and professional man it has ethical and scientific ramifications with which the courts will be unconcerned. To quote from a scientific journal the question involved: "Shall universities allow their professors to use for private gain scientific and medical discoveries made under university auspices on tax-free premises?" is a pertinent problem for institutions of higher learning and research...
...Corporation may determine." It seems that such a resolution would be unnecessary but such, unfortunately, is the nature of man that his individual morality rarely coincides with social morality. But already the spirit of this act of the Corporation seems to be evaded. Following its promulgation Professor Drinker, of the School of Public Health, transferred his patent through a Mr. Wilson to the Collins Company. It is interesting to note the wording of the assignment in trust, dated May 13, 1932: "Until the death of the survivor of Warren E. Collins and Warren E. Collins, Jr., the trustees shall accumulate...
...case of Warren E. Collins, Inc., versus J. H. Emerson Co., will begin this morning in the Federal District Court of Boston, as the culmination of a two-year battle between Phillip Drinker, assistant professor of Industrial Hygiene at the School of Public Health, and John H. Emerson, a Cambridge inventor. It is expected that the case will take three days to decide...
After a long sobering up period following the Bacchanalian orgy of July, 1933, the liquor stocks again show promise. The old drinker's advice to "take a little of the hair of the dog that bit you" may prove profitable, especially Distillers and Schenley. Other good bets are Chrysler and Harvester. Among the rails, Atchison in the upper price range, and Southern Pacific and Southern Railway in the lower brackets look attractive...
Your good article on absinthe in TIME, Sept. 3, was made even better by the reproduction of Rops' Absinthe Drinker. May I have some information about that picture? Was your cut made from the painting or the etching? In how many forms did Rops himself execute the picture? How many copies are extant? Is it purchasable from dealers' stocks? What was last quoted price...