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...labyrinthine years, Dr. Otto Nathan tried to get a passport to go abroad "for pleasure and study." About 1,000,000 other U.S. citizens got passports during this period, but Dr. Nathan ran into difficulties. As an economics professor at New York University and the executor of Physicist Albert Einstein's will, Dr. Nathan specifically wants to attend the Jubilee of the Relativity Theory in Bern, Switzerland, to seek cooperation from scientists in preserving and publishing Einstein's manuscripts. But the State Department first stalled, then denied Dr. Nathan his passport, vaguely letting it be known that there...
Looking ahead to graduation, the Class of '30 elected James Roosevelt as treasurer; Douglas Adams as poet; Albert Churchill as Ivy Orator; Wallace Harper, James Barrett, and Gardner Lewis as Marshals; Edward Warburg as Orator; Bernard Hanighen as Chorister; and Otto Schoen-Rene as Odist...
...ller, neutralist foe of his country's rearmament, began a skirmish with his own Evangelical Lutheran Church. Charged last month with neglecting the spiritual duties of the church's Foreign Bureau, run by him, Niemöller wrote a bitter letter of resignation to famed Bishop Otto Dibelius, tossed in a threat that unless the charges are withdrawn, "I will hold the time ripe to expose the insupportable intrigues that have taken place within the church...
...staff over the past year and a half. Nearly half of the permanent faculty members were lost death and retirement. The retirement of Archibald T. "Dee" Davison, '06, the grand old man of the department, was followed in quick succession by the deaths of Professors Stephen D. Tuttle and Otto J. Gombosi. Then, during the past term, Assistant Professor Alan D. Sapp has been sidelined by illness. All this has been resulted in the dropping of several courses in an already none too large offering, substituting of instructors for professors, and doubling up in courses and tutorial...
Died. Dr. Otto Gessler, 80, post-World War I (1920-28) German Minister of Defense, who sanctioned the German Republic's creation of an illegal "black Reichswehr" in violation of the 100,000-man limit set by the Versailles treaty; of a heart attack; in Lindenberg, Germany...