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...with God." TIME erred when it reported (Feb. 29) that Henry W. Moltke was a San Francisco taxi driver, instead of a San Francisco policeman. But Policeman Moltke also erred when he told a local judge that he was the grandson of the late great Prussian General Hermuth Carl Bernhard Count von Moltke who died without issue...
...Died, Bernhard von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, 74, author, youngest brother of President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany; in Luebeck, Germany. Under the pseudonym of Bernhard von Burgdorff he wrote novels, a popular biography of his famed brother, a play (Galileo) depicting the conflict of church and science, which attracted interest at the time of the Scopes trial in Tennessee...
...damage case in a San Francisco court Henry W. Moltke, taxicab driver, took the stand. In jest the judge asked if the witness were kin to the late great Prussian general, Helmuth Carl Bernhard Count von Moltke. Replied the witness: "I am his grandson, your Honor. . . . Better a live taxicab driver than a dead general...
...Mining & Technology at Houghton, Mich, gave the startling information: "Corbin T. Eddy of Michigan Tech has been awarded the Alfred Nobel Prize for Science in the newly established Junior division for men under 30. . . ." No one had ever heard of any extension of the Prizes which the late Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-96) of Sweden established for eminence in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace...
...Awarding of the Nobel Prizes; at Stockholm, Sweden. Annual occasion: anniversary of the death in 1896 of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish founder of the $9,000,000 fund for international awards. 1930 recipients: Dr. Hans Fischer, in Chemistry; Sinclair (Babbitt) Lewis, in Literature; Dr. Karl Landsteiner, in Medicine ; Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, in Physics...