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Born 50 years ago in Breslau, Max Born was the first son of Professor Gustav Born, University of Breslau anatomy professor famed for pioneer experiments in grafting tadpoles, and of Margarete Kauffmann Born, sprig of a solidly established family of industrial weavers. At Gottingen he drank the intoxicating elixir distilled...
With world finances teetering topsy-turvy, directors of the Bank for International Settlements met in Basle last week, elected a new president, and by their election broke their own charter. In 1930 when the B. I. S. was set up to facilitate German Reparations payments (TIME, March 25, 1929, et...
"I have been represented as a dangerous radical," Speaker Garner began, "with a Satanic desire to turn thing's topsy turvy. Actually I am a plain business man, the representative of a conservative community."
Separating Bakersfield, Calif, and the San Joaquin Valley from the Mojave Desert are the Tehachapi Mountains, an ugly, arid range. Fortnight ago black clouds gathered over them. Early in the afternoon it began raining. Creek beds that had been white and dry all summer became lashing rivers. Oldtimers in the...
Once more the Nipponese come trooping out of Titipu; the Land of the Rising Sun goes Topsy-Turvy, and Victorian England "trips in Liberty silks." It is a show done to the Mikado's taste, with all the pace and spirit that one could wish.