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...search for enlightenment. They will listen to Leo Wolman on the labor outlook; General Hugh Johnson on "Wages & Hours Legislation;" Colgate University's President George Barton Cutten on "Hiatus in Social Re-sponsibility;" M. I. T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton and Caltec's Robert Andrews Millikan on Science & Industry. For national and international information the manufacturers will look to Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee and Sir Wilmott Lewis, suave, ironical Washington correspondent for the London Times...
...technological improvement is beneficial or harmful to society as a whole, is a large subject which lends itself to long-winded diatribes and has already been debated to a frazzle. Secretary Wallace has warned Science that it had better consider taking a holiday. Scientists, including Caltech's Millikan, M. I. T.'s Karl Taylor Compton and Bell Telephone's Frank Baldwin Jewett have retorted that Science makes jobs by creating new industries. One of the most telling thrusts which defenders of Science have made against the bogey of "technological unemployment" is that after a half century...
Oberlin's jewels are such children as Feminist Lucy Stone, Physicist Robert Millikan, Prohibitionist Wayne B. Wheeler, Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey, Chinese Finance Minister H. H. Kung...
...reporting Dr. Millikan's successful investigation of cosmic rays in the upper stratosphere [TIME, Nov. 16], the great reduction in price of stratosphere sounding balloons evidently suggested real news interest. But that price reduction does not mean that manufacturers had formerly been making huge profits; it is result of an entirely new process of manufacture developed by intensive industrial research...
Robert Andrews Millikan, who measured the electric charge of the negative electron, won a Nobel Prize in 1923. Visibly moved was grey-haired Dr. Millikan last week when he heard that his young co-worker was to join him in the highest honor that Science can bestow. Asked by newshawks to say something about his "outside interests," Nobelist Anderson grinned: "In my younger school days my ambition was to become a track star, a high jumper. But it didn't work, and now my hobby is tennis. I just couldn't jump high enough...