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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dodge- it's the columnists I don't like!"* Then, angrily denying their engagement, he finally reached the girl he had been so frantic to see again - blonde Ethel du Pont, niece of President Roosevelt's bitter antagonist, Liberty Leaguer Irénée du Pont...
...York Women's Symphony, makes music sound like all work and no play. Conductor Sundstrom's touch is lighter but her discipline is strong. Her orchestra was considered capable enough to play at the opening of the Ford Gardens at the Century of Progress ir. 1934. It played last summer at the Grant Park concerts, proved more popular than the solid old Chicago Symphony. Conductor Sundstrom, practical about her job, says: "Women's orchestras must not merely play well; they must even strive to play better than other orchestras if they are going to be successful...
...large academic question is whether universities should thus capitalize their researchers' discoveries. Last fortnight University of Pennsylvania revealed that it had lost its cancer research department because trustees refused a request of Irénée du Pont, who had supported the department since its founding, that discoveries be patented, profits used to reward discoverers and finance further research...
Four years ago, when Marie Curie was still alive, her old heart was proud that her shy young daughter and her brilliant young son-in-law were showing themselves to be able and devoted scientists. In the Curie Laboratory of Paris' Institut du Radium Irène Curie-Joliot and Jean Frederic Joliot were shooting alpha particles (nuclei of helium atoms) at the lightweight element beryllium. Strange rays hopped out of the beryllium. Fed into paraffin, the rays knocked out protons (hydrogen nuclei) at dizzy speeds of one-tenth the velocity of light. What were the strange rays...
...prices of 7? per gallon, such as are predicted by enthusiastic protagonists of the scheme. Note that Mr. Henry Ford made no commitment on this scheme, that the prominent representatives of the automobile industry who were officially announced as speakers actually neither spoke nor attended and that Mr. Irénée du Pont described alcohol blending with gasoline as an economic waste...