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May 24 Visits Newark, N.J.
May 25 Visits Cleveland. The Zionist delegation is welcomed by
Mayor W. S. FitzGerald. After a banquet, participates in a
mass meeting at the Masonic Hall. AE has one-and-a-half
hour discussion with Dayton C. Miller at Case Western Uni-
versity on ether drift experiments. Cleveland Press, 25 May;
Jewish Independent, 27 May; Miller to T. C. Mendenhall, 2
Jun, AIP Archive. [70 984].
TLS from Chester E. Clark. “As an inventor of international
repute and fame,” AE is admitted as honorary member of
the National Institute of Inventors, New York. [30 139].
May 25–27 Meets with Ernest F. Nichols at General Electric’s National
Electric Lamp Association Park Laboratory in Cleveland
(see Illustration 8).
May 26 Together with Chaim Weizmann, meets with the delegates
of Zionist organizations in Ohio. Cleveland Press, 26 May.
May 26–27 Probably visited Niagara Falls (see Doc. 167 and entry of
30 May).
May 27 Visits Max Talmey and his family at their home in New
York City. Dedicates photograph to Talmey, “Meinem alten
Freund Dr. Max Talmey, Albert Einstein, Mai 1921.” Talmey
1932, pp. 176–177.
May 29 A letter from AE supporting Keren Hayesod was read dur-
ing the annual meeting of the Federation of Hungarian Jews
in America. Doár Ha-yom, 27 Jun.
May 30 Leaves New York for Liverpool on the Celtic.
May 31 PL from Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and his wife. Announce
the engagement of their daughter Jenneke Kamerlingh
Onnes to Leopold A. Nypels. [14 379].
Jun Poem by A. Mayer. [31 485].
Jun 2 TLS from District Housing Office. In answer to IE’s letter
of 20 May (Calendar), it reverses its decision to confiscate
two rooms. [44 1001].
Jun 6 TLS from Adolf von Harnack to KWG directors. The KWG
senate has elected Correns senator. AE and Franz Fischer