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Last week U. S. scientists were sorry to hear that Felix d'Herelle, famed Canadian-born bacteriologist, had re-signed the Yale professorship of protobiology which he had held since 1928. A pioneer in the study of the bacteriophage (bacteria destroyer), Dr. d'Herelle wants to elaborate his work in the clinical field. For this he may go to the new institute for infectious diseases at Tiflis, South Russia...
...Felix Frankfurter, Vienna-born Jew whose name shines brightest in the most famed law school of the U. S., had written a law. The President had signed it. And last week every firm of corporation lawyers in the land, including nearly all the cleverest pupils of Harvard's Professor Frankfurter, sidetracked most of their other business to find a way to finance U. S. industry without disrupting the existing financial system. They could not; their professor had outsmarted them ("with diabolical brilliance''); and some-were vexed...
...system which permitted fraud & folly. After several ridiculous attempts had been made to write the Securities Act it was turned over to Professor Frankfurter, who did not become the New Deal's Attorney General as some had expected, but is nevertheless part of the Brain Trust. Felix Frankfurter, disgusted with much of the "American System," had reason to rejoice last week in the almost unanimous opinion that his bill would change, quite beyond recognition, the whole machinery of finance...
...German capitals are alike) Norton, Gustav Oberlaender, James R. Perkins, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Samuel Sachs, Mortimer L. Schiff, Henry Schniewind Jr., Paul C. Schnitzler. Richard Schuster, W. B. Scott, James Speyer, Charles P. Taft, Ferdinand Thun, Elisha Walker, Paul M. Warburg, Felix M. Warburg, H. M. Warner, William H. Woodin, Adolph Zukor...
...reported from reliable sources that Felix Morley, political writer and newspaper correspondent has been offered the position of instructor in Government 18 and Government 30 during Professor Hopper's absence. Morley is a member of the staff of the Brookings Institute in Washington and has just written a book on "The Constitutional Development of the League of Nations." He has formerly been the director of the Geneva office of the League of Nations Association, lecturer on current political problems, and a member of the Washington staff of the United Press, Baltimore Sun, and Philadelphia Ledger...