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December 13, 1930

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SINCLAIR LEWIS HITS OLD SCHOOL WRITERS, CHAMPIONS THE NEW; In Speech Accepting Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Author Denounces Academicism. HE LAUDS HIS ASSOCIATES Dreiser, Anderson, O'Neill or Cather, He Says, Could Have Been Chosen for Award. SEES ARTIST ISOLATED HERE America Belittles Creative Work, He Holds, While Universities Still Live in the Dead Past. Bitterness in His Speech. Attacks American Academy. Seems Nervous Before Speech. SINCLAIR LEWIS HITS OLD SCHOOL WRITERS Dr. van Dyke's Comment. Chesterton Admires Lewis.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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SPEEDS PLAN TO AID DEPOSITORS OF BANK; Broderick Hopes Loans Against Bank of U.S. Accounts Will Be Possible by Monday. PROTECTIVE GROUPS FORM Governor Denies Having Power for Moreland Act Inquiry-- Suit Against Directors. Expect Speedy Solution. SPEEDS PLAN TO AID DEPOSITORS OF BANK Rumors on Reopening. Largest Bank to Suspend. Obstacle to Merger. BANK DEPOSITORS ORGANIZE. Stockholder Sues Directors of Closed Institution. ON TRAIL OF RUMORS. Stock Exchange Queries Brokers on Reports Concerning Banks. DISCOUNTS BANK'S CLOSING. London Times Sees No Cause for Anxiety in the Situation.

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23 Clearing House banks speed plan to aid depositors

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Fritz Pregl

1930Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)[†]

Fritz Pregl, was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.