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Nebulium. Certain unfamiliar lines in the spectra of far off nebulae have long been thought by astronomers to be made by a mysterious element which they called nebulium. This idea was exploded by Professor Ira Sprague Bowen, famed physicist colleague of Dr. Millikan. He found the lines are caused by the very familiar elements oxygen and nitrogen. They seemed unfamiliar because, in the rare atmosphere around the stars these elements have room to cut complicated capers, storing up energy for some time, then jumping actively and shooting off rays. In the dense atmosphere of the earth they are always being...
...other newly confirmed Commissioners are Sam Pickard (Kansas), Harold A. La Fount (Utah), Ira E. Robinson (West Virginia). E. O. Sykes (Tennessee) was sole member and acting chairman of the Commission while Congress debated its continued existence last month...
...following men will make the trip E. W. Danielson '30, J. C. Dreier '28 W. Eiseman '30, H. L. Ellison '28 H. M. Bartnett '30, U. R. Harper '28, E. J. Herman '28, J. H. Lane '28, captain, C. B. McQuaid '28, R. G. McSweeney '29, Ira Markwett '28, O. E. Milliken '28, A. M. Murphy '29, S. P. Park '29, F. A. Pickard '29, H. D. Stone 28, H. J. Wallace '28, G. A. Weller '29, J. O. Wilson '28, manager, A. W. Wilkinson '29, assistant manager, and Talbot Hunter, coach...
...famed for his high-tariff record as chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee (1919-23). Looming as competitors for the seat in the primaries and election were two former governors of Michigan, Albert E. Sleeper of Bad Axe, and Chase S. Osborn of Sault Ste. Marie; one judge, Ira W. Jayne of Detroit; and Editor Arthur H. Vandenberg of the Grand Rapids Herald...
...Ira Clifton Copley, who used to represent the eleventh district, Ill., in the U. S. House, and whose success with public utilities and small-town newspapers in Illinois (Springfield State Journal, Elgin Courier, Joliet Herald News, etc.) lately encouraged him to buy 19 small newspapers in California (the San Diego Union, Pasadena Evening Post, Hollywood News, Hermosa Daily Breeze, Venice Evening Vanguard, etc.), was disturbed last week, while traveling in Europe, by a cablegram from home. In the U. S. Senate, Nebraska's caustic Norris had hinted that Publisher-Magnate Copley was buying up newspapers solely to defeat legislation...