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...when poor people walked, one Jacob Sechler Coxey?now the respectable Republican Mayor of Massillon, Ohio? marched a ragged army of 100 men from his hometown to Washington to get the Government to do something about hard times. Last month when Congress opened, 1,600 Red "hunger marchers" arrived at the Capital in trucks, tried to muscle their way into the Senate chamber and, failing, traipsed off yelling the "International" (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week another, far larger "army" invaded Washington. No handful of disgruntled partisans were they, but more than 10,000 orderly men who differed from the silent...
When President-elect Abel assumes office at Atlantic City next Christmas holiday, he may have a great announcement to make. Established to his honor at Johns Hopkins is the John Jacob Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold. Francis Patrick Garvan, who four years ago created the fund, so far has given to it $173,750 of the Chemical Foundation's wealth, will during the next year give another $36.250. Then he will stop giving and the Research on the Common Cold will have concluded its five years' schedule of investigation. So far the Research has produced chiefly negations...
...Sciences at California Institute of Technology retired at last week's meeting. His 1932 successor, Professor Franz Boas, 73, Columbia anthropologist, was too ill to travel from Manhattan to New Orleans to assume office. In his absence the A. A. A. S. chose his successor for 1933?Dr. John Jacob Abel, 74, Johns Hopkins' great pharmacologist, the crystallizer of insulin (hormone which controls diabetes) and synthesizer of epinephrine (hormone which regulates blood pressure). He is the first pharmacologist president in the A. A. A. S.'s 83 years...
...Last week, nobody knew for sure how Philip De Catesby Ball had been persuaded to drop his stubborn plan of revenge against Judge Landis. For dissuading him from a course of action which might have destroyed organized baseball, gossip credited Clark Griffith, part owner of the Washington "Senators," Colonel Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York ''Yankees," and Robert Quinn, owner of the Boston...
...promote a more active interest and scholarship in the Greek language, a prize was first offered this year by Mr. Drury W. Cooper in memory of his father, Jacob Cooper, who was for many years Professor of Greek at Rutgers College. According to his plan one thousand dollars is to be paid each year to that candidate for admission to college who on the basis of the Board's examinations appears to be most proficient in Greek. The first winner of this prize was A. M. Kelley...