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...balloon idea: a brilliant Oxford professor named Frederick Alexander Lindemann. One of Winston Churchill's closest buddies, who last spring used to give the Prime Minister relaxation by beating him at Monopoly and Lexicon, Dr. Lindemann has proposed many weird but useful theories of war. Fellow student of Einstein, such a wizard with figures that he can instantly square or cube root any large figure, he once worked out a mathematical formula for taking planes out of spins-which worked. He was thought to have something to do with the R. A. F.'s inflammable calling cards...
...more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events, the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by [its] side for causes of a different nature," wrote Physicist Albert Einstein addressing the gathering by proxy "To be sure, the doctrine of a personal god interfering with natural events could never be refuted ... by science for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. ... In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give...
...public is well aware that ex-German Albert Einstein is now a U. S. citizen, ex-German Thomas Mann is a citizen-to-be. Since Adolf Hitler began to liquidate German scholarship in 1933, every ship from Europe has borne eminent scholars to the U. S. Today many of them teach in U. S. colleges and universities. At Harvard are ex-Chancellor Heinrich Brüning; famed Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; renowned City Planner Martin Wagner; Werner Jaeger, one of the world's most eminent classical scholars...
...Trenton, N. J. before a Department of Immigration examiner, Dr. Albert Einstein, 61, took his final examination, demonstrated his knowledge of U. S. Government, was promised his final citizenship papers in 90 days. Asked whether he was pleased at the prospect of U. S. citizenship, Dr. Einstein happily replied: "Sure, sure, who wouldn...
...Five hundred members of the American Association of Scientific Workers-among them University of Chicago's famed Professors Arthur Compton and Anton Carlson-petitioned President Roosevelt to keep the U. S. out of war. To the President promptly went counter-petitions, urging help to the Allies, from Albert Einstein, scientists at Princeton, Harvard and California Tech...