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...paneled library of a huge, blue-shuttered Italianate villa on Baltimore's exclusive North Charles Street, ten grave, rich men sat down one evening this week for a long talk about money. Headed by Daniel Willard, and including among their absent members Walter Sherman Gifford and Newton Diehl Baker, their concern for the moment was not with the state of railroads, of telephones, of law or even of politics. As the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, it was their solemn duty to approve a plan of campaign which, when launched next week, will serve notice...
Members of the advertising staff; J. Geoffrey Levin of Cleveland. Ohio, Peter M. Soutter of Greenwich. Connecticut, George M. Peters, Jr. of West Newton, and Bernard B. Grossman of Quincy...
Chairman William Beckwith ("Bill") Gerry of the Minneapolis Reserve also stayed on at $20,000 per year. Kindly, spindly, 68-year-old Banker Gerry was governor until a fortnight ago, when he swapped jobs with John Newton Peyton, the chairman, who was 18 years his junior. Duly elected president, Banker Peyton met the Board's new requirement that a Reserve Bank president must be under 65 when elected, and not over 70 in any event...
...realize, with special clarity, how much in error are those theorists who believe that theory comes inductively from experience. Even the Great Newton could not free himself from this error ("Hypotheses non forgo...
...Einstein apart is the quality of his intuition. There have been abler mathematicians than he. But from a very few observations-the constancy of light's speed in space and the equivalence of gravitational mass and inertia-he divined how the cosmos was made. He did not, like Newton, invent mathematics to describe it but borrowed the mathematics of Riemann, Fitzgerald, Lorentz and Minkowski...