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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a textbook since then has honored Schleiden and Schwann as the first to postulate that the cell is a fundamental unit of life. Some time ago Joseph Meyer, a consultant at the Library of Congress, conceived the idea of a great centenary celebration in honor of Schleiden and Schwann and of the discovery of the cell theory in 1839. Hence Stanford's symposium...
After dealing briefly with the traditions of national service (". . . the Ancient and Britons the had fine a old military Army loyalties organization . (" . . . . .") pride in his own corps, regiment, or unit is the outstanding characteristic of the British soldier . . ."), the booklet launches into the ticklish questions of discipline and saluting: "There is nothing in the least servile or derogatory in the custom. The the salute is a mutual gesture of respect to King's uniform...
...partial solution to this problem was explored last week when the U. S. Navy was authorized to open negotiations with the No. 1 U. S. shipbuilder, No. 2 steel unit-Bethlehem Steel Corp.-to buy its West Coast shipyard, helping to free Bethlehem to concentrate on expanding its East Coast shipbuilding capacity hard by its East Coast steel and armor plate shops. Meanwhile Army & Navy men are exploring possibilities of organizing a West Coast steel industry to serve local shipyards...
When Canadian Colonial left the brood of Aviation Corp. (largest unit, American Airlines) stocky, purposeful Sigmund Janas was assistant to American's President C. R. Smith. Earlier he had learned the tricks of financing as Deputy Superintendent of Banks in California, the tricks of airline operation as president's assistant for Western Air Express. Close friend of Motorman Errett Lobban Cord (American's chief stockholder) he had also learned how to combine the tricks of operation and banking, take over ah airline (as Cord had American) and make it tick...
...charge of the festivities are the officers of the undergraduate "Caisson Club," a student organization which aims to introduce military science and tactics to the college and to foster esprit de corps in the college unit. These include Phil E. Morin '39, president, Kenneth L. Booth, '39 vice-president, Raymond G. Jones '39, secretary, and Clarence E. Boston '39, treasurer...