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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brooklyn, N. Y...
Honored-Connecticut's Governor Wilbur Lucius Cross, with the Montclair Yale Bowl, as a Yaleman who has "won his Y in life"; Dr. George E. Hale, honorary director of the Mount Wilson Observatory (Pasadena, Calif.), by the British Royal Society's Copley Medal, for work on the sun's magnetic field; Nobel Prizeman Dr. Fritz Haber, by the Royal Society's Rumford Medal, for work in thermodynamics; Munich Professor Richard Willstatter by the Davy Medal, for organic chemistry researches; Cambridge Professor Dr. James Chadwick, by the Hughes Medal, for demonstrating the existence of neutrons (TIME, March...
...Moyer, (D.E.M.L.), see'y...
Again, Wedell-Williams. A yellow-&-red monoplane shot up from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. one morning last week, tore through 2,500 mi. of stiff west wind, landed at Burbank, Calif. 12 hr. 22 min. later, more than two hours under the westbound record. The pilot was big-framed Roscoe Turner who wears a swagger uniform of his own design and used to keep a mascot lion. The plane was a Wedell-Williams speedster of the type which made the eastbound record (10 hr. 19 min.) last September...
...Bustling little Congressman-reject Fiorello Henry La Guardia (N. Y.) warned the Postmaster General that he would sponsor a strike of Avco pilots if Cord should get control...