Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Devine Theft. On Jan. 28, 1935, negotiable bonds worth $1,507,938 vanished from the office of C. J. Devine & Co., 25 floors above Wall Street. Police made no headway until a stranger telephoned Detective Henry P. Oswald in Manhattan last month, hinted that the bonds might be "in Paris-Paris, France." From officials there, Oswald learned that a dressy mob was peddling U. S. securities at cut rates among U. S. expatriates. Another tip led to a beauteous blonde called the Marchioness Pia Ferrari Davico. Federal agents enticed the "Marchioness...
...Italy. All figures were based on U. S. gold dollars. Italian imports of merchandise that totaled $14,650,000 in February 1935 dropped to $8,239,000 for February 1936. Exports were cut almost 50%. The country most effective in applying sanctions was Yugoslavia, which bought only $300 worth of Italian goods in February. The U. S. profited most from trading with outlawed Italy, her exports from November 1935 through February 1936 increasing $2,148,000 over the same period the year before...
...Louisville, Ky. last week, staff members of the Courier-Journal and Times heard news they had been anxiously awaiting. Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and owner of the two papers, had found and appointed a successor to onetime General Manager Emanuel Levi, who a month ago departed to take charge of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (TIME, March 9). New Courier-Journal and Times boss was Mark Foster Ethridge, famed Southern newspaperman. In Richmond, Va., where he had just resigned as publisher of the Times-Dispatch, Mark Ethridge...
...Voorhis, 50, were so interested in their atom-smashing experiments that they had come back to the physics laboratory to work after dinner. For bullets they used neutrons. The neutrons were knocked out of beryllium by alpha particles from radium. The beryllium and 200 milligrams of radium sulphate, worth $4,000, were in a metal tube. One of the scientists started to solder a loose cap on the tube over a flame. The cap blew off. Some of the radium compound spurted into the faces, nostrils and mouths of the two men. Instantly they felt burns...
This remarkable state of affairs seems to be the result of a policy based upon a misguided conception of the relative worth of teaching and scholarship. The department of Physics is supposed to teach Physics; at the same time, it appears, its function is to engage in exhaustive research work. At the moment, all its energies are directed toward the latter end. In theory, men are engaged for their teaching ability and their qualifications as research men. Actually, if a man has any teaching ability to begin with, he had best smother it at once if he expects to linger...