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...Congress that could not summon enough courage to stand out against an overbearing Chief Executive." Day that the above premature excerpt from his weekly handout. Dispelling the Fog, was scheduled to be released to the press last week, the Democratic National Committee's publicity director Charles ("The Mike") Michelson sent out a hasty request to editors that it be killed as "untimely...
...Democrat Michelson was thus completing the cycle from high-powered mud slinging as an "out" in 1932 to embarrassed fog-dispelling as an "in" in 1938, the cycle was officially recognized by the Republican National Committee. Appointed Republican publicity director was short, burly, bristle-lipped Columnist Franklyn Waltman of the Washington Post, who lost his early enthusiasm for the Roosevelt Administration over the Court...
Electromagnetic waves were supposed to be transported through space in a jelly-like medium called the ether. But the difficulty of constructing a coherent mathematical picture of the ether proved insuperable. Furthermore, the famed Michelson-Morley experiment showed fairly conclusively that the ether did not exist...
...murmured sotto voce, like a college course in Economics 2A. At his desk sat the President, jovial as ever. Behind him was an easel stacked with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service men. First part of the lesson was the reading aloud by the President of a statement prepared for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles, by their economic experts. Excerpts...
Died. Francis Gladheim Pease, 57, astronomer of Mt. Wilson Observatory; after an intestinal operation; in Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Pease, who was one of the first to measure the diameters of stars, designed a 100-inch telescope, completed the experiments of Chicago University's Albert Abraham Michelson in light-speed calibration...