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...Dean refused to give any reason for the dismissal and refused to make known the findings of the Loyalty Committee. From the morning papers the three scientists learned, that they had been discharged "in the best interests of the insti- tution." Six weeks later, each received a letter, signed by Jefferson's attorney which said: "I can assure you that the decision . . . to terminate your service . . . was not based upon a finding that you were a subversive person as that term is defined in the Pennsylvania Loyalty...
...Dean refused to give any reason for the dismissal and refused to make known the findings of the Loyalty Committee. From the morning papers the three scientists learned, that they had been discharged "in the best interests of the insti...
Gloomiest observer was the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration. Over & over again during the past two years FHLB Commissioner John H. Fahey has warned that every type of financial insti tution has been making "reckless" loans, that the "unsound wartime realty boom" could have but one end: a postwar wave of foreclosures that might make the last depression look like a sideshow...
...threw the tests entirely askew. Dr. Pease and Assistant Pearson did not say flatly that the speed of light could no longer be regarded as a constant. "The observed irregularities," they said, "are unexplained and their elucidation apparently will require more sensitive apparatus." Albert Einstein, at Princeton's Insti tute for Advanced Study, foresaw no need of revising his relativity theory, spoke of deformations in the earth's surface, said the Pease-Pearson results should be "most interesting from a geophysics standpoint." Harvard Observatory's Director Harlow Shapley thought the results were due entirely to the relationship...
...makes in the ice. Warrant for the trip's success lies in Explorer Wilkins' caution, courage, foresight and ability, proved repeatedly through his explorations by sled, ship and plane. Scientific approbation of the proposed submarine excursion comes from the American Geographical Society, the Carnegie Institution, the Norwegian Geographical Insti- tution, the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History...