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Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981),His Life and Times

IUBMB LIFE, Issue 3 2000
Marion Stubbs
A symposium to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Hans Krebs was held in St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, UK, during September 13-15, 2000. It was organized by Marion Stubbs, a long-time associate of Krebs, and Geoff Gibbons, the head of the Metabolic Research Laboratory that was established for Krebs after his retirement from the Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. The speakers, from all parts of the world, were Krebs' friends and associates, dating from all stages of his career in the UK, beginning with Reg Hems, who joined Krebs in the early 1940s. The three children of Hans and Margaret Krebs-Helen, Paul, and John-were present. Sir John Krebs, F.R.S., Royal Society Research Professor of Zoology at Oxford, gave the welcoming address. This article was adapted by Drs. Stubbs and Gibbons from one of the same title that appeared in the program book. We thank them for their kind cooperation. We also thank Mrs. Helen Lowell (née Krebs) for conveying the permission of the Krebs' children to reproduce the illustrations in this article. - William Whelan, Editor-in-Chief [source]

The Clerk, the Thief, His Life as a Baker: Ashton Embry and the Supreme Court Leak Scandal

JOURNAL OF SUPREME COURT HISTORY, Issue 1 2002
John B. Owens
On December 16, 1919, Ashton Fox Embry, law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Joseph McKenna, abruptly resigned from the position he had held for almost nine years. His explanation? His fledgling bakery business required his undivided attention. Newspapers that morning hinted at a different reason: Embry resigned because he had conspired with at least three individuals to use inside knowledge of upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions to profit on Wall Street.2 A grand jury returned an indictment against Embry and his associates a few months later, and Embry's argument that he had committed no crime ultimately reached the Supreme Court, the very institution he was accused of betraying. Despite the sensational headlines and fierce legal battle arising from his indictment, the United States Attorney quietly dismissed Embry's case in 1929, almost ten years after the story had broken. Few Court scholars have ever heard of Embry, and the memory of Embry, much like the case against him, has disappeared with time.3 This article unravels the "Supreme Court Leak Case" by reconstructing what happened almost eighty years ago. [source]

Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventure, His Women

THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 1 2006
Ray B. Browne
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

A "Civilised Amateur": Edgar Holt and His Life in Letters and Politics

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 1 2003
Bridget Griffen, Foley
Now largely forgotten, Edgar George Holt (1904,1988) was a leading journalist and public relations officer in the middle decades of twentieth,century Australia. This article examines his prominent journalistic career in the 1930s and 1940s, his presidency of the Australian Journalists' Association, and his work as the Liberal Party of Australia's public relations officer from 1950 to the early 1970s. The article explores the evolution of his cultural and political views, considering how a literary aesthete and poet came to be at the forefront of the 1944 newspaper strike and then an important player in Australian conservative machine politics and the emerging industry of political public relations. [source]