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...Poland's adolescent merchant marine, the motorship Batory last week slipped into New York Harbor, five days before Britain's giant Queen Mary (see p. 17). From Poland's struggling new port of Gdynia on the Baltic to New York, the crack 16,000-ton Batory had made a record run of seven days, 17 hours running time, was met by a prepared demonstration of proud Polish nationalism...
Chemist-President Conant, crack researcher in chlorophyll (the green coloring matter of plants), graciously invited his outstanding rival, Chemist Dr. Hans Fischer of the University of Munich. A resounding roll of Nobel Prize winners included three physicists: Arthur Holly Compton (Chicago), Niels Bohr (Copenhagen), Werner Heisenberg (Leipzig); three chemists: Friedrich Bergius (Heidelberg), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Cambridge), Theodor Svedberg (Upsala, Sweden...
...that Lewis G. Carlisle of East Islip, N. Y., to whom Yale owes credit for many points, won the American high point championship, competing throughout the season against the crack drivers of America. The following year he was succeeded by Joel Thorne who, as a representative of Rutgers University, won the intercollegiate individual championship...
...Presidential election the Supreme Court has thrown a bomb into the lap of the American people which should do much to crack the wall of adoration surrounding the Constitution. The five-to-four decision invalidating the New York minimum wage law for adult women shows that from now on "due process of law" will be as effective in preventing the individual states from enlisting social legislation as it was when Congress tried to do the same for the District of Columbia in the twenties...
...usually perched just above and in front of the official as he sits in his accustomed chair before the starboard rear observation window. Nevertheless, last week the Boston & Maine joined the current race to lure passengers with gimcracks when it installed a speedometer in the solarium of its crack, streamlined Flying Yankee. Developed by Waltham Watch Co., the instrument is actuated by a small electric generator connected to the car wheels. If it works without too much tinkering, pleases the public, B. & M. plans to install one in each de luxe day-coach on all through trains so that passengers...