Word: michelson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Typical research accomplished with the aid of Rockefeller Funds: Prof. A. A. Michelson's (University of Chicago) experiment with light rays in a pipe-rectangle to check the Einstein relativity theory (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924); Professor Niels Bohr's (University of Copenhagen) atomic investigations in the infra-red region of the spectrum (TIME, Feb. 4, 1924), for which he last week received the Barnard Gold Medal from Columbia University...
Three Chinese, with a white lawyer, Michelson, were hailed before the U. S. District Court, San Francisco, on a charge of having conspired to bribe an immigration officer. All four were acquitted, but not before the prosecuting attorney had added to the tribulations of a California Cabinet member. Said the prosecutor...
...sent a letter to Harlan F. Stone, Attorney General, in which he said that Attorney Michelson was being prosecuted on evidence not sufficient to warrant action. Secretary Wilbur should have known better than to do a thing of this sort...
...Wilbur explained: "I officiated at his [Michelson's] wedding and his first baby was named after me. When this matter came up, Mr. Michelson asked me to send a telegram which could be shown the District Attorney, making a statement as to his general reputation. I did so and stated that his reputation was good. I know nothing about the merits of the charge against Mr. Michelson and there is no truth in any statement that I am interfering to defeat justice...
...Pound Class--Morris Michelson 1L won from C. G. Page 3L. by referee's decision...