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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first three volumes will soon be off the press, announced Col. Josiah Wredgwood, Laborite Chairman of the Committee on House of Commons Records since 1929. The first volume will contain biographies of 2,600 "known" Britons who sat in both Houses between 1439 and 1509, many being unknown...
...case of tritium, triple-weight hydrogen, is different. Its discovery was foreshadowed by the somewhat dubious magneto-optic method which anticipated the identification of deuterium. Then, in England, Lord Rutherford bounced deutons (deuterium nuclei) together, got protons and something of mass three which he thought was either an unknown form of helium or triple-weight hydrogen. Cautious Lord Rutherford took his time ascertaining that the new particles were both helium and tritium. Meantime Dr. Merle Antony Tuve and his associates at the Carnegie Institution of Washington had identified tritium particles by measuring their mass as indicated by the curvature...
Died. Jeremiah Smith Jr., 65, Boston lawyer, financial savior of Hungary as League of Nations Commissioner General in 1924-26; in Cambridge, Mass. Unknown and at first distrusted by Hungarians, he stabilized currency, controlled revenues, floated a $50,000,000 loan. Given 30 months to put Hungary on her feet, he balanced the budget in six months, rolled up a $15,000,000 surplus in a year. He declined decorations and $60,000, which went instead to establish scholarships for Hungarian students...
Wholly unexpected was the choice of the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs for No. 1 U. S. pilot of the year: American Airlines' Chief Pilot Dean Cullen Smith. Famed among fellow-pilots but virtually unknown to the public, tall, black-mustached Dean Smith last made front-page news when, in December, he spotted from the air an American Airlines passenger plane which had been lost for more than 48 hours in the blizzard-swept Adirondacks. Oldtime airmail pilot, member of Admiral Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica, Dean Smith has never been a headline flyer, lives quietly with...
...last week Worth and Wall Streets echoed with talk about the "news" that had caused the break: a report from an unknown source that the Government had decided to abandon its policy of lending farmers 12? per lb. on their cotton. As a price stabilizer that policy had been effective. But who could tell how far cotton might fall if the loans were stopped...