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Francis Ferdinand Lucas, metallurgist and microscopist of Bell Telephone Laboratories, had good news for the members of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers assembled last week in Manhattan. Said he: "There will shortly be delivered in New York a new metallographic equipment. ... I have recently put it through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Microscope | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

The new metallograph, an instrument which scientists use to pry into the minute details of metal structure, is the most powerful microscope ever made. Mr. Lucas himself drew up the designs, took his specifications to the scientists of the famed German optical company, Carl Zeiss Works of Jena. The completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Microscope | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Ferocity. In all the vocabulary of politics, no epithet so enrages most politicians as calling them "demagogs." And in national politics, a statement issued by an Administration man on the steps of the White House is commonly construed as voicing the President's sentiments. Hence it was with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL N(: Lucas, Norris et al. | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

Sudden Silence. Puzzling to many citizens must have been the sudden quiet that fell upon the Insurgent and Regular combatants immediately after Philosopher Dewey's exhortation. Senator Norris softly passed the matter off by saying, "Isn't that funny?" He promised to pro pose a Constitutional amendment doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL N(: Lucas, Norris et al. | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

Much to the surprise of many a regular North Carolina Democrat, the Senate last week confirmed (47-to-11; the appointment of Frank R. McNinch, a 1928 North Carolina Hoovercrat, to be a Democratic member of the reorganized Federal Power Commission. Approved at the same time were the four other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: When is a Democrat? | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

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