Word: hertz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other officers are: Martin J. Hertz 2L: first vice-president in charge of planning: Matthew Foner 21, of New York, second vice-president in charge of publicity: John R. Berger 21, of Angola. Indiana secretary: and Edmund R. Rosencranz H. of New York, treasurer...
Unable to get a cow, Martin J. Hertz 2L yesterday tried to cash a check written on the side of a wooden grocery crate at the Harvard Trust Company...
...exchange was inspired by an excerpt from A. P. Herbert's "Uncommon Law," in which the author states that under the Negotiable Instrument Requirements a bank is compelled to cash a check even if written on the side of a cow. The current inflationary price of cows, however, forced Hertz to improvise...
...understand why they wouldn't honor my check," said Hertz, after being forcibly evicted from the bank. He also muttered threats of a breach of contract suit. Accompanied by inquisitive onlookers, he later tried to cash the check at the Cambridge Trust Company, where Vice-President E. W. Phippen said that he would honor the check but for the fact that it was too bulky to run through the cancelling machines...
...Hertz's letters carry no complaints. They say that Premier Stalin has converted an old Czarist mansion in" the Caucasus into a modern physics laboratory. There, along with some 200 Russian and German experts, Dr. Hertz is continuing his research in atomic energy, radar and supersonics. Scientists who used to exchange information with Dr. Hertz believe the Times's report. But after long collaboration with the German physicist, they have little hope of ever again sharing any technical information. Further communication with Dr. Hertz must be addressed "c/o General Delivery, Moscow...