Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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While Dr. Albert Einstein declared from the S. S. Belgenland last week that a better balance between producer and consumer was the world's most pressing problem in 1930 (see below), the man whom he was coming to visit, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, said the same thing in a speech to the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents, meeting in Manhattan. Cause of Unemployment, he recited, is overproduction, inevitable result of the War. Although Science, the builder of machinery, has often been held responsible for taking...
Fortnight ago the two started for U. S. from their small apartment home in Haberlandstrasse, Berlin. Frau Einstein had a busy time preparing for their long journey. So soon as Dr. Einstein announced last month that he would make his second trip to the U. S. to visit his scientific friends Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, University of Chicago physicist, and Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. (TIME, Nov. 24), scores of U. S. private citizens, public officials, clubs, and universities sent invitations for teas, dinners, receptions. Frau Einstein, who is her husband...
...Einstein especially dreaded his reception in New York. He remembered his visit nine years ago when, to find peace from questioning, he fled to the roof of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, played his violin alone among the chimneys. "I suffer more than anybody can imagine," he said then...
...himself (Wade calls him a "hard, pertinacious little paragon") but he must have had a certain charm. Literary Tycoon Sam Johnson who knew and liked him once complained: "I hate to meet John Wesley. The dog enchants you with his conversation, and then breaks away to go and visit some old woman. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk...
Menachem Ussishkin, mighty namesake of an evil King of Israel, reached the U. S. last week from Palestine. The purpose of his visit is to bolster the rage of U. S. Jews against Great Britain's recent opposition to further Jewish colonization of Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 et seq.), and to raise money for the Jewish National Fund of which he is world president. He is a short, powerfully built, deter mined man aged 63, a Russian-born engineer. He has lived in Palestine the past ten years. Nine years ago he visited the U. S. Fellow Zionists call...