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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Paris February 6, 1894, Marchal began his musical studies at L'Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles. Since 1915 he has held the post of organist of St. Germain des Pres. His career as a virtuoso is a spectacular one. His own series of recitals at St. Germain des Pres have covered most of the organ literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLIND ORGANIST FROM FRANCE TO PLAY HERE | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

Plain, pious U. S. Roman Catholics hear little of the tremendous widening of modern Catholic theology in Europe. There the most influential lay Catholic thinker is a mild-mannered little Frenchman, Jacques Maritain, convert to the faith and professor at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Maritain is a follower of the great medieval doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. In Neo-Thomism, based upon the monumental Summae of St. Thomas, Maritain sees the unique cure for modern ills. Seeking, like Karl Barth, to rescue civilization from humanism and revive pure Christianity, Neo-Thomism does not "annihilate man before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crisis Theologies | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

With the recently announced election of Edward K. Rand, Pope Professor of Latin, to the Institut de France, Harvard now has four members in this distinguished French academic society. Rand and Charles R. Lanman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Emeritus, are now colleagues in the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres of the Institut; and Professors George D. Birkhoff '05, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Philippe-Jules-Fern-and Baldensperger, professor of Comparative Literature, are members of other academies of the Institut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Institut de France | 1/13/1938 | See Source »

...counterraid, for Washington had taken Dr. Fagg from Northwestern. A teacher of economics and law for 15 years-at Harvard, University of Southern California and the Institut fur Luftrecht in Konigsberg, Germany, as well as Northwestern-Dr. Fagg, a Wartime liver, founded and headed the Institute of Air Law in Chicago in 1929, became so authoritative an expert in his subject that the Federal Government drafted him as part-time legal adviser in 1934, later asked him to help revise the civil air regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fagg to Northwestern | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...from 550 tons of mined ore. A San Diego mining engineer and chemist named F. S. Kearney, now working in Mexico, assayed Mrs. Bishop's ore at 130 milligrams of radium per ton. This high figure, Mrs. Bishop said, was confirmed when she sent a sample to the Institut de Radium in Paris (once presided over by the late Marie Curie). Present price of radium is $25 per milligram, $25,000 per gram, $700,000 per ounce. Mrs. Bishop suspected for years that she had radium ore on her property, kept it quiet until her claim was cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radium | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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