Robert Millikan repeats an income affirmation for sixteen hours

Neville recounts the Millikan story as it was told to him by the person who interviewed Millikan after his Nobel Prize: the poor son of a traveling minister locked himself in a room for sixteen hours without even a glass of water, repeating over and over an affirmation of a lavish, steady, dependable income consistent with integrity and mutual benefit.
Date (happened)
before 1923
unresolved
  1. before 1923 bound · probable
    Source The Secret of the Sperm ¶9
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 037)
    Reasoning The affirmation preceded the fame and fortune the passage says followed; Millikan's Nobel Prize was 1923.
Place
Los Angeles
Persons
Neville Goddard
Robert A. Millikan
Told
  1. 19 February 1965 estimated · probable
    Source The Secret of the Spermdelivery claim d0 on lecture nid 1913 (The Secret of the Sperm), 1965-02-19 exact/probable, from transcript+processing-note review (Neville's own 19-Feb birthday vision plus the Montreal congress dated Dec 1964); d1's chrome hedge ('possibly 1965') is coarser but consistent
    Reasoning Passage 548732 is Neville relating, in the lecture itself, the Millikan story as told to him by the Nobel interviewer; the lecture is dated 1965-02-19 by the best-evidenced (probable) delivery claim, so the telling date inherits that precision.
Sources

Source

  • The Secret of the Sperm ¶9 (And the story as told me by the one who interviewed him after he got the prize, the Nobel Prize, in this cosmic rays studies, and he said to her, the interviewer, “I was a poor boy, raised in a nice environment.)