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Born and raised a Roman Catholic, my ignorance may seem refreshing, when (if I may) I ask you to please explain who this Black Pope...
...Planck announced that radiant energy could only be propagated in tiny, indivisible bundles which he called quanta. Furthermore these bundles did not proceed through space continuously, but by jumps. It was not long before experimenters were finding this lumpiness and jerkiness everywhere. Albert Einstein used it to explain photoelectric action. Subatomic explorers found that atoms had only a fixed number of orbits in which their electrons might travel; that the electrons jumped from one orbit to another with emission or reception of energy exactly equaling one or more quanta...
Biographers, plying their little hatchets, would be the first to confess that this affectionate title possessed no small degree of accuracy. How for example, is one to explain succinctly the character of a man who would in one moment defy a whole city, as Jackson did when he placed New Orleans under martial law, and who would in the next submit meekly to the sentence of Judge Dominick Hall, one of the major victims of that defiance? How is one to harmonize the picture of the man who caused the imprisonment of the Spanish commissioner in the common goal with...
Last week Secretary of Commerce Roper undertook to explain the "apparent inconsistency" between the Government's policy of retrenchment and the NRA's policy of expansion. His prime points: 1) Business and industry began to deflate expenses immediately after the 1929 crash whereas for four years the Government added 10,000 workers to its payrolls and attempted to maintain salaries at boom levels in a further attempt to break the depression. 2) This Federal policy produced a series of Treasury deficits which the country voted to end in the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 3) The Government...
...available copies of the Mangan pamphlet, destroyed them while Chicago sniggered. Last week's tax disclosures did not help Mayor Kelly's already poor standing with President Roosevelt who as Governor of New York ousted Sheriff Thomas ("Tin Box'') Farley because he could not adequately explain his large income. Governor Roosevelt laid down this rule: "Where a public official is under inquiry and it appears that his scale of living or the total of his bank deposits far exceeds his public salary, he owes a positive public duty to the community to give a reasonable...