Word: michelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editorial content, compiled by Publicity Chief Charles Michelson, included a foreword by ex-National Chairman James A. Farley, a biography of Henry Wallace, essays on phases of the New Deal, the President's acceptance speech. Asked about the origin of The Book, which has burgeoned under many titles for almost 100 years, Editor Michelson snorted: "It's automatic, like the Jackson Day Dinner...
...stories were the smoothest smearing jobs done since the Brain Trust worked on Paul McNutt (TIME, March 25), the most thorough on any Republican since sly old Charley Michelson took his stiletto out of Herbert Hoover's back...
...Michelson and Morley raced two beams of light against each other with an interferometer (a light splitter). The beams were at right angles. Idea was that if the earth, in its revolution around the sun, was actually traveling through a sea of ether, the effect of ether-drag should perceptibly slow up one of the beams. But the two beams finished th-e race practically neck & neck. This looked like a mortal wallop for the ether theory. Einstein's Relativity theories (1905-15) seemed another deadly stroke, for they dispensed with the ether as unnecessary. In the relativistic view...
Professor Dayton Clarence Miller of Cleveland was one of those who refused to give up his ether. He repeated the Michelson-Morley experiment with delicate interferometers floating on pools of mercury, got positive results which convinced him that the earth is in absolute motion, through an ether sea, at a speed of several hundred miles a second. But his findings were not generally accepted...