Word: euler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...electrons emanating from hot bodies. His discovery of "Richardson's Law" gave other scientists important clues which led to the invention of the electron-actuated radio tube; 2) the Prize in Chemistry for 1929, to be divided between Dr. Arthur Harden of London University and Professor Hans von Euler-Chelpin of Upsala University, Sweden, for their joint research on the enzyme action in the fermentation of sugar; 3) the Physics Prize for 1929, to perhaps the most elite of living scientists, Louis Cesar Victor Maurice, Due de Broglie...
Hard words wash across the Canadian border into the U. S. in the wake of hard liquor. Last week there was a recrudescence of the argument about the two countries' Prohibition responsibilities. At Ottawa William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue whose blunt speaking on the same subject has riled U. S. officials before (TIME, June 3), lectured the Washington government on ways and means of checking rum-smuggling. Treasury officials in Washington snorted indignantly. Two facts are basic in this international dispute: 1) Canada grants clearance of liquor cargoes for the U. S. on excise...
...Minister Euler in the prow of the rumrunner with the U. S. Customs House ahead: "Do you often cross in the daytime as well as at night...
...Minister Euler: "How is it that the American Customs...
...Minister Euler also told the House of Commons that on occasion U. S. Customs agents even assisted rum-runners to unload their cargoes. He said: "No effort, so far as we can see, is made by the U. S. to seize any of these boats. The U. S. customs always are notified by us an hour or two before the boats leave and occasionally we notify them as the boats are leaving. . . . U. S. customs officials have requested the Canadian authorities to discontinue our daily telephone notifications of clearance of liquor-laden vessels and have asked them to mail them...