Word: hahn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corrupt Democratic politicos. Having convicted Kansas City's Democratic Boss Pendergast and indicted Philadelphia's Republican Publisher Moses ("Moe") Annenberg for income-tax evasion, having prosecuted Federal Judge Martin Manton for "selling justice" in Manhattan and proceeded against big-shot Lawyers Louis Levy and Paul Hahn for their dealings with Judge Manton (rulings on their disbarment await the outcome of Judge Manton's appeal), Mr. Murphy's men are about to go to work on some of Hollywood's richest cinemagnates for alleged income-tax evasion and antitrust violations, and on the powerful stagehands union...
...gentle-souled German pastor wrote a friend: "Here I was-actually in prison, properly under lock and key! . . . I could not help thinking of old D. Traugott Hahn, who in his prison at St. Petersburg knew full well that, while innocent before man, before God he had deserved prison a thousand times over, just as I have. So God has blessed me by humbling me under His mighty hand...
...Miami, deaf Mrs. Irene Hahn, 65, fled terror-stricken from her bedroom when a man started battering at the door with an axe, locked herself in an adjoining room. Presently that door, too, was battered. She retreated to another room. There the axe-wielder finally cornered deaf Mrs. Hahn, explained the house was on fire, he, a fireman...
This time clipped 1.6 seconds off the great Lloyd Hahn's indoor half-mile record of 1 :51.4 set in 1928, but Borican was dissatisfied. Said he: "I think I could have taken two seconds off my time tonight if I had . . . someone in front of me on the last...
...Hahn calls himself a radiologist and his previous record includes discovery of several radioactive elements. Some years ago he lectured at Cornell, is remembered there as an "outstanding scientist"-also as a good lecturer, an amiable and energetic man. Last week the "fission" of the uranium atom definitely looked like a find of Nobel Prize calibre. But present German law forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes. Meanwhile, physicists have unofficially distributed some of the credit to Liese Meitner in Stockholm (a woman physicist) and R. Frisch of Copenhagen, who presented a fine interpretation of what happened when the uranium atom...