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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waver from Dublin did not rise to oppose the entry of Russia. He endorsed it but rose to champion the idea that the few small nations still opposed should be invited to air their views in open assembly. Shaking a bony finger at his pet aversion, British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, and at M. Barthou, the Free State's de Valera cried: "The whole question of procedure should be properly considered, instead of in hotel rooms. . . . What is it reasonable for Russia to expect? She naturally wants to assure herself before applying for membership that...
...nations, such as Switzerland and Panama, still hostile to Russia's entry. The Swiss Government, strongly conservative, grew so excited that Swiss reporters at Berne conjectured fantastically, "If Russia is admitted we may resign and the League may have to move out of Switzerland." It took M. Barthou, Sir John and the Italian Chief Delegate, tall, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi, about 24 hours to get the drafting work going quietly forward again in hotel rooms without protest...
Though they did not talk that way face to face, Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Sir Josiah Charles Stamp were in effect last week debating a familiar old question at the Aberdeen meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The question: Shall Science take, a holiday? Sir James as the astronomer-physicist president of the Association, held out doggedly against such an idea one day on one platform. The next day on another platform Sir Josiah, as the Association's economist-tycoon treasurer, seemed to think it would do no great harm...
Only the tail end of the Jeans presidential discourse was concerned with science in industry. His topic was "The New World-Picture of Modern Physics"?a picture he has displayed to some 300,000 readers in thin, lucid books. Sir James again led his hearers over the trail from the comfortable Victorian universe of jelly-like ethers, billiard-ball particles, gears and levers to the disconcerting, fantastic universe built by Rutherford, Planck. Bohr, Einstein. Heisenberg. Schrodinger, Dirac and others where the electron dances beyond space and time in a field of mathematical formulae...
...concert in 1929, bushy beloved Sir Henry Wood, famed English conductor, led his orchestra through Bach's Organ Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Londoners, delighted, ruffled through their programs to discover that the transcription was by one Paul Klenovsky. "a young man understood to have lived in Moscow." clapped loud & long. The Klenovsky transcription was played with equal success at Liverpool, over B. B. C., and in Hollywood. Pressed for more information about the young man, Sir Henry added the following program note: "It is a pity that this young man has died. His early death robbed Russian music...