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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Emeline Harriman Spencer, 76, sister of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt Sr.; from Howland Spencer, 48, Dutchess County, N. Y. gentleman farmer; in West Palm Beach. Said Mrs. Spencer: "He never hit me, he just exploded. He would yell so the whole of Palm Beach could hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

President Roosevelt promptly remarked that he was glad to hear of this olive branch and Bill Douglas, making his first comment since the Supreme Court upheld the registration provision of the Holding Company Act last month, declared in Electrical World: "We do not expect every utility system to present us immediately with a revised map showing revamped, integrated systems. Nor do we propose to draw such a map. ... the statute is not a 'death sentence.' On the contrary it holds the promise of a long life and a happy one. It substitutes order for chaos. ... We are ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Death Sentence | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

This group will meet next Wednesday to elect officers and hear the reports of retiring officers, Francis Keppel '38, president; Caspar W. Weinberger '38, treasurer; and Wiley E. Mayne '38, secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amory, Bolton, Boston, Bunker, Freed Chosen for 1939 Council | 5/20/1938 | See Source »

...library to dust themselves off from their vigil among the books in the tombs, secretaries, to some dean--you don't know which,--but you've see them in University Hall--Radcliffe and debutantes on the loose--such is the group that gathers round the steps of Widener to hear the Glee Club under the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THY JUBILEE THRONG | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

Since no chemist can truly say that he has seen a molecule under the microscope, laymen may be mystified to hear scientific talk of "giant molecules." But molecules, infinitesimally tiny as they are by ordinary standards, vary greatly in size. Molecular weight of ethyl alcohol, for example, is 46 units; * of sodium chloride (salt), 58.5; of the hormone secretin, 5,000; of hemoglobin, about 68,000; of the thyroid substance thyroglobulin, about 700,000. Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley and his associates at the Rockefeller Institute have crystallized the virus which causes mosaic disease in tobacco, found that it weighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Red Giants | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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