Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March Dr. Compton, declining a chance to be president of Princeton University, set out with a 250-lb. machine to watch cosmic rays on Pacific mountaintops in Panama, Peru, New Zealand, Hawaii, Alaska. His preliminary report last week flatly contradicted Dr. Millikan's findings. Dr. Compton found "definite differences in the intensity of the cosmic rays at different latitudes, with a minimum at or near the Equator and increasing intensity toward the North and South Poles." These differences made him suspect that cosmic rays were streams of electrons, particles of electrically charged matter. More upsetting to Dr. Millikan...
Honolulu, Hawaii...
...from Minnesota's Maas a bill to abolish first and some second class postmasterships for economy and efficiency's sake. In each office the No. 1 civil service employe would be put in charge. ¶ Received from Illinois' Britten a bill to militarize the Administration of Hawaii under the Army or Navy. ¶ Defeated (228-to-169) a resolution to bring up a bill legalizing 2.75% beer...
Married. William Samuel Paley, 30, president of Columbia Broadcasting System; and Mrs. Dorothy Hart Hearst, 23; two weeks after she divorced Publisher Hearst's third son John Randolph Hearst; in Kingman, Ariz. Honeymoon: Hawaii...
With whistle tooting and the band playing "Aloha Oe," the Malolo glided from her pier, set her nose for Diamond Head. Into the harbor gay passengers tossed their leis (flower garlands), symbol of speedy return to Hawaii. But no leis were cast back by Lieut. Massie, his wife or mother...