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...Them" referred particularly to Professor Jacob Papish of Cornell, who last autumn recognized eka-cesium with the x-ray spectrograph. With an x-ray spectrograph Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois discovered the third last unknown element, No. 61, of the Periodic Table, which he named illinium (TIME, March...
...fact that, after the Chicago convention, he is slated to succeed Senator Fess as chairman of the Republican National Committee and manage the Hoover campaign for reelection. Only Republican candidates in the field so far against Mr. Hoover: onetime Senator Joseph Irwin France of Maryland and Mayor Jacob Coxey of Massillon, Ohio. Father James R. Cox of Pittsburgh told a crowd of 50,000 at Pitt Stadium he would run on an independent "jobless" ticket (TIME...
...JOHN JACOB ASTOR?Kenneth W. Porter?Harvard University Press (two vols...
...volumes, 1.353 carefully documented pages, Researcher Porter has stored all the available facts about the first & greatest of the Astor dynasty. Born the son of a butcher in the little German village of Waldorf, John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) became "first business man in America to attain colossal wealth." Author Porter considers him preeminent in his period, says: "Indeed it is doubtful whether in the art of buying and selling he has ever been approached, much less surpassed...
...John Jacob Astor is the first of a series, to be called "The Harvard Studies in Business History," which will be issued by the Harvard University Press. Says Editor Norman Scott Brien Gras, professor at Harvard's School of Business Administration: "Sometimes the theme of the studies will be individual business men, sometimes it will be an individual business firm. But the emphasis will logically be upon the policy and management of private enterprise...