Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Bar Association committee on citizenship who quite recently formulated a credo: "I believe that we Americans have the best government that has been created" smug pride of nation still persists, but it is steadily and increasingly challenged by Jeremiads such as Spengler's Decline of the West, Einstein's scorn of U. S. intelligence, Siegfried's despair of U. S. materialism. Just how science and the machine have affected civilization; just what the possibilities are of self-destruction, "decline," as compared with perpetuity?these are questions for a modern Aristotle with "all knowledge" in his mastermind. But all knowledge...
...tall hill on which perches the citadel of Prague sped the sleek limousine of Lewis Einstein. When Commoner William Jennings Bryan was U.S. Secretary of State, he once called Mr. Einstein an "invaluable adjunct" to that Department. Lion Hunter Theodore Roosevelt declared in 1918, "Mr. Lewis Einstein . . . foresaw the War. He foresaw our entry into...
Last week the sleek limousine of Lewis Einstein, rich and smart "career diplomat," and U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, was accorded every mark of respect as it wheeled into the courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry. Alighting briskly suave Mr. Einstein stepped within and soon deposited a formal demand from the U.S. State Department that the annual quota set upon U. S. motor cars imported into Czechoslovakia shall be raised this year by a cool...
...motor quota system, just as are Czechoslovaks by the U.S. immigration quota. But the need of developing a Czechoslovak motor industry is considered vital, and therefore a protective quota operates against even the Allied countries which secured independence for Czechoslovakia after the War. However, the "demand" presented by Minister Einstein, last week, was courteous and purely formal. Negotiations have long been smoothly under way to raise the U.S. motor quota to an annual total of 30% of present Czechoslovak production...
...Einstein limousine purred down Prague's hill, many a non-Semite looked with envious eye. Well known is the fact that the U.S. Minister's rich father (wool) cut him off with $125,000 when he married his present spouse, because she had been twice before a wife. But later a rich sister placed at Son Einstein's disposal for life an income of $20,000 per year. In the opinion of William Jennings Bryan the present Mrs. Einstein became a distinct adornment to the diplomatic personnel, and deserved all praise for remaining in Constantinople with...