Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laureate Millikan: "No controversy!" Pulsating Universe. While cheerful Professor Albert Einstein steamed through the Panama Canal last week on his way to California Institute of Technology, Caltech's optimistic cosmologists were at Atlantic City-Dr. Millikan fighting for his cosmic ray theory (see above). Dr. Richard Chace Tolman presenting a reasonable picture of a pulsating universe. It is true, reasoned Dr. Tolman, that the stars are blazing into heat & light, that as far as we can see the universe is expanding, and some eon may become dull chaos, as the Cambridge physicists reason. But, if we use Einsteinian concepts...
...Wiley, pure food man who had criticized as "poisonous" a certain corn flour produced in his Illinois district. He worked hard getting his constituents bigger & better pensions, dipped into the pork barrel for public buildings, joined log-rolling expeditions for local waterway developments. He denounced Theodore Roosevelt for the Panama "grab," flayed him as a "mob leader." Loud and tactless, he was set down and snubbed as a radical ranter by conservative Republicans and Democrats alike. Tariff Fire- In 1908 Representative Rainey struck fire from the Republican tariff. A traditional low-tariff Democrat, he charged that U. S. manufacturers, protected...
...produced a photograph of him. Day later police located a Welshman named William James Guy, 24, in a shack in the Los Angeles River bottoms. He admitted he "hated Wanderwell" because the Captain had once left him and his wife "on the beach" in Panama in the course of a Wanderwell tour. He also admitted illegal entry into the U. S., said he voted in the last election. But Suspect Guy denied killing Wanderwell. although he curiously paraphrased Mrs. Wanderwell's observation that many would have liked to kill him. An alibi supplied by several aviator friends, followed...
...their respects," and explain volubly the whys & wherefores of election results. Ambassador Edge called to say good-by before starting back to France. Another caller was John Work Garrett, bearded, limping Ambassador to Italy. Dr. Don Ricardo Alfaro had his credentials to present as the new Minister from Panama. A Hoover handshake was all Charles Hann Jr., U. S. vice president of the Federation of Interallied Veterans, wanted. The President also found time to step out on the South Grounds and receive the first platinum medal ever struck off by the Philadelphia mint-as honorary chairman of the George Washington...
Public Construction . . . "over four years will amount to $2,350,000,000-or eight times as great as the Panama Canal. . . . The nation is well ahead of its requirements...