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...moral objectors were already out in the open. They were labor leaders, church leaders, many educators (but not all), Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin, Physicist Albert Einstein, and such groups as the National Council Against Conscription. The council, in a pamphlet endorsed by Einstein, argued that U.M.T. would further a military influence which they saw already creeping into too many phases of U.S. life, including even the Boy Scouts of America. U.M.T., they argued, ran counter to the nation's traditions and expressed ideals. U.M.T. would be interpreted by the world as a warlike threat...
Every afternoon, the members emerge from their separate dens for tea and talk. Among them: Albert Einstein, crack Mathematician Oswald Veblen (nephew of famed Economist Thorstein Veblen) and the institute's new boss, Physicist J. Robert ("Oppy") Oppenheimer...
...Fackenthal reply was issued after a group of prominent citizens, headed by Albert Einstein, had denounced the bill as one more step toward military control of American civil life. The group claimed that such domination had already progressed to the point where it "jeopardized our planning for peace." The Einstein report was issued by the National Council Against Conscription...
...Einstein group declared that many key men now in government, naming General George Marshall and Admiral William Leaby, had military backgrounds. It also alleged that "the Army and Navy are extending their influence unto science, education, and industry. Military influence is spreading into high schools to the Boy Scouts of America." the group claimed...
...where his father ran a dry-goods store. It was a brilliant family. His sister Miriam was a successful novelist. His brother Albert became one of the world's great physicists, whose measurements of the speed of light won him the Nobel Prize in 1907, and helped Einstein develop the theory of relativity. Albert once candidly remarked that Charley was the most brilliant of them...