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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press suddenly remembered that Cinemimic Chaplin had denied to reporters three or four years ago that he is Jewish. The argument embroiled Jewish Scientist Albert Einstein, in mid-ocean on the S. S. Deutschland. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chaplinitis | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...Such firms as the general Electric company, the Dupont company, and others can afford to give a scientist every possible comfort without even threatening him with a special task. He is not bothered with lectures and tutoring but works to his heart's content in the most theoretical fields. This is a taint of commercialism non the less: it is also a form of advertising on the part of the company, and depletes the university faculties. In this class come institutes endowed by millionaires for special advanced study, valuable as they may be to science, as they rarely hand knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Business Attracts Professors Away From Universities, "Says British Visitor--Darwin Regrets Commercial Taint | 3/19/1931 | See Source »

...Forbes has had many years experience in cruising Canadian and American waters in the Atlantic Among his shipmates will be J. L. Madden '31, who has done considerable survey work. A well-known scientist, whose name has not yet been given out will be chief Geographer, representing the Royal Geographical Society of England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. FORBES WILL EXPLORE NORTH LABRADOR COAST | 3/18/1931 | See Source »

Wozzeck's plot is surprisingly old to be the perfect counterpart of Berg's ultra-modern score. It was written nearly 100 years ago by Georg Büchner, a German poet-scientist who had ideas far ahead of his time. Büchner died at 23 in Zurich where he earned a doctorate with a treatise on the nervous system of fish. He left three plays: Leonce and Lena, written while authorities were hunting him for his revolutionary sympathies; Danton's Tod, given in the U. S. a few seasons ago by Max Reinhardt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wozzeck in Philadelphia | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Died. John Francis Stanley, Earl Russel, 65, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India, brother of Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Arthur William Russell (who succeeds to the title); of heart disease; in Marseilles. Grandson of Lord John Russell, Victorian Prime Minister, he was, like his brother, a scientist and Socialist. Once a Buddhist, later an agnostic, he married three times. He divorced his first wife, Mabel Scott, in Reno and immediately married Mollie Cooke, twice-divorced sister-in-law of the Bishop of Kilmore. Since his divorce was not valid in England he was charged with bigamy, tried in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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