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...Reader Smith is entitled to believe his grandfather Joseph Smith. Many others believe Brigham Young, who declared when Mormon polygamy was openly proclaimed at Salt Lake City that Joseph Smith had 27 secret wives besides Emma. Critic Bernard DeVoto (son of a Notre Dame mathematician, a Mormon mother) admitted that Joseph Smith had only five "official" children by his "official" wife Emma...
Deportation proceedings may possibly be opened against Bentrand Russell, mathematician and philosopher, according to a telegram sent from Washington, D.C. last night by Massachusetts Congressman John W. McCormick to Thomas Dorgan, legislative agent for the City of Boston...
...distinguished mathematician, who will deliver a series of lectures here next year, stated that "the principle of freedom of speech has been invoked not by the New York Board of Higher Education as their legal defense, but by many thousands of people throughout the United States who have perceived its obvious relation to the controversy...
...morals. The President and Fellows are merely upholding their right as an independent body to appoint men they believe are specially qualified for certain jobs. They point out that the William James Lectureship calls for "eminent scholars not connected with Harvard University." Dr. Russell, they add, is a "mathematician and philosopher of recognized eminence," and will lecture here on mathematics, logic, and language...
Beside Rohrlich and Stetner, the refugees who are graduate students include Herman Noether of Berlin, whose father is a famous German mathematician now in exile in Russia; Karl Deutsche, a Czech who came to Harvard year ago; Walter Pick 2M, another Czech who chalked up an outstanding record for his first half year's work at the Medical School; Herbert Sonthoff of Berlin; Georg Fleishcer, who was formerly a wealthy philanthropist and educational leader in Vienna and was exiled without a penny because he married Jewess; and Klemens Klemperer, another Austrian...