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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JOHN CAMPBELL MERRIAM: A distinguished scientist whose wise administration of the Carnegie Institution has advanced knowledge on many fronts...
...Mineola, L. I. last year Mrs. Lucy Steele Kirk, Christian Scientist, sued George Cisler for $10,000 for damages from an automobile accident. A jury found for the defendant because Supreme Court Justice Paul Bonynge charged it solemnly to ponder whether, to a follower of Mary Baker Eddy, injuries and pains could be real (TIME, June 25). This spring a higher court ordered a new trial, holding that Justice Bonynge had erred in letting Christian Science "creep into the trial in a manner inviting, to the plaintiff's prejudice, personal issues between her and the jury." Last week...
...wrote approvingly of the work of Vilfredo Pareto in his The Mind in the Making, few U. S. readers had heard the name of that eminent Italian sociologist or knew what sort of ideas he had advanced in his nine fat volumes. Widely recognized in Europe as a social scientist of great originality and erudition, as a vigorous commentator on world affairs in French and Italian newspapers, as professor of political economy at the University of Lausanne, Pareto's transatlantic reputation grew slowly after his death in 1923 and was almost entirely limited to academic circles. Last week Professor...
Amplifying this last week, Lecturer Anderson said he might be called a Christian Scientist, psychologist, evangelist or Baptist, "but I do not claim to be any of these. I simply believe in the lessons of Jesus Christ." Asked if he thought he could become President of the U. S. simply by believing in it, he parried: "Ah! If! If I believed it! But I would not believe that. A woman in London asked me whether if she believed she were Queen Mary she would be Queen Mary. I said yes, that there was only one sane woman in England...
...Army alone knew that the brave old walrus was dying three weeks ago, Poland's famed Colonels' Clique suddenly brought forward the new Constitution on which they had been working for five years and had it formally signed. Thus last week gentle President Moscicki, a brilliant scientist but an uncertain politician, found himself with enormous paper powers. He has absolute veto over Parliament, he can take command of the Army and Navy, and dismiss Parliament by decree...