Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War and prominent Cleveland attorney, will head a distinguished special board to investigate the army's tragic experiences in flying the air mail...
Edward Wight Washburn, chief chemist of the U. S. Bureau of Standards until his recent death, showed how electrolysis could be used to get a fairly high conce tration of heavy water. Dean of Chemistry Gilbert Newton Lewis of the University of California later devised a series of electrolyses to produce almost pure heavy water. At Princeton, Dr. Hugh S. Taylor made three ounces of heavy water whose density could not be increased by repeated refinements, concluded he had pure deuterium oxide. Meanwhile heavy water's first fabulous cost of $150 per gram (about $37,500 for a glassful...
...greatest of its kind in the world. It was bequeathed three years ago by the late Lizzie P. Bliss on condition the Museum raise an endowment fund of $1,000,000 (TIME, May 25, 1931). This sum was subsequently reduced to $750.000 by Lizzie's brother, Cornelius Newton Bliss (Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee and Metropolitan Opera director). Last week the Museum announced that its endowment fund had reached $600.000, that Brother Cornelius had accepted this as earnest of another $150,000 to be forthcoming. Thus did the Museum become permanent owner of the Bliss collection. Large single donor...
Investigating rumors that the dog was in the home of a Lampoon editor in Newton, the CRIMSON discovered that it was false. It had been reported that the dog was hidden in the same place as had been the Sacred Cod last year...
Last week Attorney General Cummings announced the imminence of Federal suits for income tax evasion against Andrew William Mellon, Thomas Stillwell Lamont, Thomas L. Sidlo (law partner of Newton D. Baker) and James John ("Jimmy") Walker, New York's runaway mayor. Details of evidence were not disclosed...