Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NORMAN J. GOELTZ...
Millikan Rays. Histories of science will refer to 1925 and 1926 as the years when "universal rays" were reported by Dr. Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Millikan, at a session of the American Geophysical Union, again described how he had detected, by observing their effect upon delicate instruments scabbarded against other influences, rays with a wave length one ten-millionth that of light rays; rays which can penetrate six feet of lead and which impinge upon the earth from the surrounding universe in all directions (TIME...
That night some of the strikers' directorate, the United Front Committee, talked over the telephone to Norman Thomas, onetime Socialist candidate for governor and mayor of New York. Would Mr. Thomas care to test the legality of the Riot Act? Mr. Thomas knew that the U.S. Government has on file other documents besides those that provide for the suppression of disorder. There is for instance the Constitution, which guarantees to freemen the right to meet and voice their opinions. Next day, in Garfield, N. J., Mr. Thomas climbed into the crotch of an appletree stump and put the Riot...
...Indianapolis home Mr. Wilson said: "I had no more to do with the overthrow of Madero than Woodrow Wilson, and of course he had nothing to do with it. This was purely a manufactured charge made by a newspaper correspondent. In response to that charge I instituted suit against Norman Hapgood (then editor of Harper's Weekly), and among other things obtained a confession of judgment...
...Meanwhile the cause of all the comment had packed up and, with Mother Talley, started on her first professional concert tour. She went to Hartford, Conn., was met at the train by a delegation of prominent Hartfordians, was escorted to the City Hall, where Mayor Norman C. Stevens presented her with the keys of the city...