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February 24, 1939

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MOSCOW REPORTS WARSHIP LAUNCHED; No Details of Vessel Are Given --Foreign Observers Doubt It Is a Battleship

By Unknown Author

Predicts invincible fleet

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Physicist Shuts Laboratory To Subjects of Dictators; Bridgman of Harvard, in Protest on Such Nations' 'Misuse' of Science, Not Even To Discuss Tests With Visitors

By Times Wide World

Article in Science (pub) reveals closing laboratory to scientists of totalitarian states; career; por

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STRYKER CHARGES HINES WAS FRAMED; DENOUNCES DEWEY; Says Davis and Aides Received Unusual Freedom to Build Case Against Leader LAYS POLITICS TO DEWEY Resorts to Bitter Invective and Ends in Tears--Motion for Dismissal Denied

By Times Wide World

Stryker sums up case for defense; assails Davis and Weinberg as per-jurors; charges case against Hines was prison cell frame-up; scores Dewey's pol ambition

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TWO ENTER RACE FOR PITCHER POST; Senators Wicks and Feinberg Seek Majority Leadership in Albany Conference

By Warren Moscow Special To the New York Times

Sens Wicks and Feinberg seek post

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NEW BILL IN HOUSE FOR REORGANIZING ON ROOSEVELT PLAN; Measure Vests Control of It in Congress and Exempts Several Important Agencies WOULD CURB FILIBUSTERS Legislation Is Designed to Meet the Objections That Shelved Proposal Last Year

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.--A government reorganization measure shorn of some of the controversial titles of last year's recommitted bill but retaining most of President Roosevelt's ideas for revamping...

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1939Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (died 2013)^[†]

Jamal Nazrul Islam FRAS was a Bangladeshi mathematical physicist and cosmologist. He was a professor at University of Chittagong, served as a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and member of the syndicate at Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology until his death. He also served as the director of the Research Center for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (RCMPS) at the University of Chittagong. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2000 by the Government of Bangladesh.

Headlines from February 24, 1939

MOSCOW REPORTS WARSHIP LAUNCHED; No Details of Vessel Are Given --Foreign Observers Doubt It Is a Battleship

Physicist Shuts Laboratory To Subjects of Dictators; Bridgman of Harvard, in Protest on Such Nations' 'Misuse' of Science, Not Even To Discuss Tests With Visitors

STRYKER CHARGES HINES WAS FRAMED; DENOUNCES DEWEY; Says Davis and Aides Received Unusual Freedom to Build Case Against Leader LAYS POLITICS TO DEWEY Resorts to Bitter Invective and Ends in Tears--Motion for Dismissal Denied

TWO ENTER RACE FOR PITCHER POST; Senators Wicks and Feinberg Seek Majority Leadership in Albany Conference

NEW BILL IN HOUSE FOR REORGANIZING ON ROOSEVELT PLAN; Measure Vests Control of It in Congress and Exempts Several Important Agencies WOULD CURB FILIBUSTERS Legislation Is Designed to Meet the Objections That Shelved Proposal Last Year

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