Word: koehler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With painful concentration, two uneducated carpenters in the little courthouse at Flemington, N. J. last week watched and listened to a brawny scientist from the Wisconsin woods. From the witness stand Arthur Koehler, head of the Federal Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, was delivering a three-hour illustrated lecture on wood. Carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German stowaway accused of kidnapping and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., paid close attention because his life was at stake. Carpenter Liscom Case, Juror No.11, listened and looked carefully because he knew that the other jurors would respect his judgment on a vital aspect...
...When (book, music & lyrics by Jack McGowan, Ray Henderson & Ted Koehler; McGowan & Henderson, producers). Sounder entertainment than most of its kind, Say When presents no innovations but several elaborations on the hoary old pattern of musical comedy. There are two pairs of lovers-a vaudeville team which has met a couple of female bluebloods from Long Island on a boat. There is also the affair of a smuggled ring and a liaison between the girls' father and a theatrical baggage. Jack McGowan, master of the "situation gag" rather than the outright nifty, has written a book whose wheezes wilt...
...Pluralistic Universe" is the subject to be discussed in the third of the series of William James lectures being delivered weekly this fall by Wolfgang Koehler, visiting Professor of Philosophy from the University of Berlin. Today's lecture will be given in the New Lecture Hall at 5 o'clock...
Professor Koehler is the leading exponent of the Gestalt Schol of psychology and is world-famous for his investigation of the intelligence of anthropoids. His work "The Mentality of Apes", is the standard reference for men interested in this subject. He was born in Esthonia in 1887 and received his education at the Universities of Tubingen, Bonn, and Berlin...
When asked of the influence of Hitler's regime on German universities, Professor Koehler indicated a preference to talk on psychology rather than on political subjects...