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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia opened a browsing room in its new $4,000,000 library. Textbooks are banned, smoking permitted. Said Librarian Jean Westphal: "We plan to collect a gentleman's library and let the students use it just as the owner might...
Last week a Paris dispatch reported another and possibly more effective attack on yellow fever. Immunologist Jean Laigret of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis announced that he had successfully vaccinated 3,000 individuals against yellow fever at Dakar, French West Africa, which is achieving business importance as a French hop-off for South Atlantic aviation. If wholesale vaccination is possible, whole populations can be protected against yellow fever as simply and thoroughly as they now are protected against smallpox. And communities will not be encumbered by the expensive necessity of eradicating yellow fever mosquitoes...
...Millikan had reserved his remarks for an appropriate occasion, the International Conference on Physics. The roster of those assembled was studded with names famed the world over. Present and greeted with stormy applause were quiet, brilliant Jean Frédéric Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot, son-in-law and daughter of the late Marie Sklodowska Curie. A vast and totally unforeseen field of research was opened last year when the Curie-Joliots discovered the phenomenon of artificial radioactivity. The young couple obtained a continued emission of positrons from boron, magnesium and aluminum by bombarding those elements with alpha...
...plan for reciprocal and preferential treaties, segregating the gold bloc from the rest of the world. Dutch bankers are talking of pooling colonial empires and drawing in Italy. But fact remains that only France, with better than a 100% gold coverage for its currency, can hold out indefinitely?if Jean Frenchman can stand...
Uptown: "The Fountain"--This film is based on the famous novel of Charles Morgan. Ann Harding is in the leading role, and she is supported by Charles Morgan, Brian Ahern, Paul Lucas, Jean Hersholt, and Ralph Forbes. On the same program will be "Now and Forever", the same picture which is showing at the Modern...