Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KARL CLINTON Syracuse...
Under the crossed banners of the American Institute of Physics and the New York Electrical Society in Manhattan last week met three famed men of Science, with many a lesser luminary, to retort for their profession. One was Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The other was Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology. The third was Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories. In a telegram to the meeting President Roosevelt took a nicely neutral position: "The value to civilization of scientific thought and research cannot be questioned. . . . The idea that Science is responsible...
Professor Hocking will introduce William A. Neilson '98, president of Smith College and national president of the institute, who will preside. Other speakers will be Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T.; Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Radcliffe College, and Henry W. L. Dana...
Reprieves. Other stories were not so pleasant. Eager to make the most of their victory, Heimwehr chieftains clapped hundreds of Socialist officials in jail, where they already had Vienna's famed Burgomaster Karl Seitz and the Austrian Republic's first Chancellor, Dr. Karl Renner. Drumhead courts-martial were set up to try rioters, and kept the newly appointed state executioner, Herr Lang, busy hanging the victims. The first day's catch reached him the third day of the fighting. A young married man, one Karl Munischreiter, had been caught with a rifle a few hours after...
...Socialist workmen in the Danube shipyards. Armored trucks with blazing guns tore up & down the streets of Vienna. The Government outlawed the Socialist Party; and Heimwehr youths in grey-green overcoats and steel helmets took possession of Vienna's city hall, for years a Socialist stronghold. Burgomaster Karl Seitz was held prisoner. Army howitzers whanged away at Karl Marx court, largest apartment building in Europe, housing some 2,000 Socialist families. By the end of the second day's fighting, in what met most definitions of civil war, 400 to 500 Austrians lay dead. Austrian Socialism lay battered...