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...President Karl T. Compton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, former Minister to Norway, the Rt. Rev. Henry St., George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, Robert J. Watt, International Representative of A.F.L., Senator Elbert Thomas, chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, and Ewing Cockrell, New York attorney, in a statement last week also called for universal disarmament, denounced as absurd international machinery designed to prevent only atomic armaments...
...week ago the association had protested the rise in rents and tuition, and since then they have submitted a petition to Dr. Carl T. Compton, President of the Institute, requesting him to reduce the increases as far as possible. Fifty eight percent of the dormitory residents signed the petition...
...technical advice from a board of advisers headed by Brigadier General Georges F. Doriot, who resigns this month as Deputy Director of the Research and Development Division of the War Department General Staff. Also on the board are three top-drawer men from M.I.T.: President Karl T. Compton, Edwin R. Gilliland, and Jerome Clarke Hunsaker. The board of directors includes Ralph E. Flanders, board chairman of Jones & Lamson Machine Co. (who will also serve temporarily as president of the company); Bradley Dewey, onetime Rubber Administrator, now president of Dewey & Almy Chemical Co.; and Ira Mosher, chairman of the board...
There is shy Albert Einstein, looking in his old age more & more like a long-suffering and highly sagacious old yak dictating a letter to President Roosevelt which sparked the Manhattan Project. There are the quick-eyed Lise Meitner, the steely Compton, the vivid Fermi, the deceptively rustic Bush, their faces subtly haggard in remembrance of the moments they are reenacting; and there are the faces of Oppenheimer and Rabi, a few minutes before all hell breaks loose in the New Mexican desert, with the shaky exchange-Oppenheimer: "This time, Rob the stakes are really high." Rabi...
...Washington University last week, Chancellor Arthur H. Compton assigned some 40 scientists to basic nuclear studies and the many unsolved engineering problems involved in making atomic engines Said Compton: "A battleship with an atomic power unit would use the unit to propel the ship, and at the same time might produce materials from which atomic bombs could be made...