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...positive acceleration." Only in its diversion to war is this increasing knowledge destructive, he went on. It gives men leisure, and men can be educated to use their leisure pleasantly. Sir Frederick believes that British Broadcasting Corp., a government licensed monopoly, will take charge of such education. Sir Josiah Stamp, economist, was altogether pessimistic on the subject. Science, argued he, should be curbed. It is producing new goods which destroy the demand for old. That process tends to wipe out old industries, causes economic waste. There should be a referee system to control the exploitation of new "direct discoveries...
...Francisco, Conductor Richard Lert (Playwright Vicki Baum's husband) began concerts in the picturesque Woodland Theatre last week. In Cincinnati's Zoo where Goliath, Barnum & Bailey's 10.000-lb. sea lion recently visited, Lohengrin started eight weeks of opera on money largely raised by Mrs. John Josiah Emery, Artist Charles Dana Gibson's daughter. Only disturbance the opening week was made by a peahen named Madame Blanche who emitted a shrill Nya-a-a-a each time Soprano Hizi Koyke as Madame Butterfly struck a high note. In New York's Central Park rollerskaters kept...
...people of Great Britain would rather have Franklin Roosevelt as Chancellor of the Exchequer than Neville Chamberlain!" shouted Laborite Colonel Josiah Wedgwood. "Every year Mr. Chamberlain gets up and says that prices should be restored but no action is taken...
University of Pittsburgh Arthur Vining Davis .... Sc.D. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania ... LL.D. President Josiah Kirby Lilly of Eli Lilly & Co. (chemicals) .... LL.D. Dr. Franklin H. Martin, Chicago surgeon .... LL.D...
Washington & Lee University (Lexington, Va.) Judge Duncan Lawrence Groner of the U.S. Court of Appeals .... LL.D. Acting President John Lloyd Newcomb of the University of Virginia ... Sc.D. Sir Josiah Stamp, British economist ... LL.D...