Word: steinmetz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan restaurant one morning last week three people sat breakfasting on highballs. They were Rev. Joseph J. Leonard, 40, a Roman Catholic priest; Joseph Lieb Steinmetz, 22, a Jew turned Presbyterian theology student; and Mrs. Steinmetz, 17, a minor showgirl whom he had married a fortnight before. The three had met casually the night before. From the restaurant they returned to the Knights of Columbus Club Hotel and the Steinmetz room where another bottle of whiskey was consumed. When Steinmetz began feeling groggy, Father Leonard suggested he lie down. He heard the priest say to his wife...
PHILIP HUMASON STEINMETZ...
...next recordable appearance is in 1920 as director of the Technical Alliance a loose organization for the discussion of social implications of the Machine Age. The late Charles Proteus Steinmetz and Thorstein Veblen were members. Other, living ones, are Stuart Chase, Frederick Lee Ackerman (Manhattan architect), Bassett Jones (Manhattan elevator engineer). They erroneously believed Howard Scott a doctor of science from the Technische Hochschule, at Charlottenburg, Germany. The interlocutions of the Technical Alliance languished. But Howard Scott, in Greenwich Village, prated and ratiocinated...
Leadership students would read the lives of Leaders Washington, Lincoln, Bismarck, Schwab, Ford, Edison, Sperry, Steinmetz et al., supplemented by Success Stories of the standard American Magazine type. There would be lectures by Instructor Wadsworth, stressing self-analysis, adaptability, flexibility of interest. Studies would also include a spatter of psychology, memory, will, habit, the brain and its structure. For homework the students would work over intelligence tests of the Army type and "Standard Interviews," a method of self-analysis which Instructor Wadsworth devised...
...Einstein will be professor of mathematical " theoretical physics "for life." He will continue to have his devoted Dr. Walter Mayer as assistant. As with the late great Charles Proteus Steinmetz whom General Electric provided with all monies he ever required for livelihood and experiment. Dr. Einstein's "salary" will be all he ever wants. He will be provided a home at Princeton, will work (beginning next autumn) only from Oct. 1 to April 15 for the rest of his active life; will teach only what, when, if and as he pleases; will spend his summers sailing his little boat...