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...with Catherine Rose Wilson) of Rabelais. He edited The Freeman, later contributed a column in its successor The New Freeman. During the War he was secretary to Minister to Belgium Brand Whitlock. Though he holds M.A. and LL.D. (Hon.) degrees from St. Stephen's and a Ph.D. from Leipzig, Dr. Nock dislikes being called "Doctor." Believing U. S. institutions too generous with doctorates, he calls his contemporaries (from the lecture platform) Mister Butler and Mister Flexner. He has, however, a Ph.D. son, English teacher at the University of Leipzig, who permits himself to be called Dr. Samuel Nock...
...hand with Might!", to seize the Government. Municipal elections were held in Stuttgart. Hitlerites nearly doubled their previous vote. The provincial diets of Oldenburg, Brunswick and Hesse were all Hitler-controlled. Adolf Hitler sat in Berlin giving press interviews as though he were already Chief of State. In Leipzig a congress of pharmacists and physicians turned into a typical Fascist rally. Hitlerite orators, drunk with the sound of their own voices, shouted their program to maintain the superiority of "the Nordic race, the finest flower on the tree of humanity." They mentioned the hanging of Marxists, abolition of trade unions...
Price Commissioner. Most important of all, Dr. Karl Goerdeler, until last week the little known Burgomaster of Leipzig, was given a post new to capitalist countries. If lawmaking could do it, Chancellor Bruning was bound to reduce living costs in Germany last week. Government salaries were slashed 10%. Wages in private industry were ordered reduced to the Tan 10, 1927 level. House rents were ordered reduced 10% to 15%. Retail prices of standardized articles were ordered reduced 10% and Dr. Goerdeler was appointed Price Commissioner, given autocratic powers to see that these decrees were enforced...
Professor Lamb, editor of "The Journal of the American Chemical Society" since 1917, has been a member of the Harvard Faculty since 1912. He received the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1903, and his Ph.D. in the following year. He has also studied in the Universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg...
Professor Sigerist is a Parisian by birth and received his preliminary education in Paris and Zurich. He studied Medicine and Philology at the universities of London, Munich and Zurich, receiving his medical degree at the latter institution. He was a professor at the University of Leipzig until 1925, and Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine...