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These investigations were partisan in nature, but they also produced some constructive results, e.g., the act setting up the Securities and Exchange Commission; As a result of both the Teapot Dome investigations of the 1920s and the money investigations of the 1930s, shining reputations were dulled and some leading citizens went to prison. It was a painful and unpleasant process, and men of good will in both parties often wished that the end would come...
Ever since Du Font's quick-drying lacquer (Duco) revolutionized automobile painting in the 1920s, chemists have tried to find a similar paintmaking resin which could be dissolved in water, instead of in costly, inflammable solvents. But almost anything that water would dissolve could also be washed away by water after it dried. Last week Reichhold introduced a water-soluble resin which is the base for a paint that, after baking, can't be washed off. Moreover, it also withstands weathering, salt water and corrosion. For automakers, Reichhold's resin may mean an end to flash fires...
...band of seven nature painters who far surpassed New York's bland "Hudson River School." To picture the raw splendor of Canada's glaciers, frozen lakes and jack-pine forests, they developed a rough & ready brand of French Impressionism, with broader strokes and darker colors. In the 1920s Canadian critics inclined to scoff at the group; now that its efforts are history, it is becoming more and more revered...
...1920s. the new century seemed to be talking (and worrying) more about sex than previous ages. "Frankness" became a respectable pose for cocktail parties, parent-teachers' meetings and literature. The novelists-Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, and later Erskine Caldwell and Faulkner-were blatantly detailed, and behind them stood the anthropologists and psychoanalysts with their case histories. But the generation still had no Kinsey. It was left to him to clothe the subject in the sober, convincing, guaranteed-to-be-scientific garb of statistics...
...some brisk intelligence work in the Civil War, the U.S. throughout most of its history has underrated the importance of intelligence. U.S. Army and Navy intelligence services, handicapped by the reluctance of regular officers to make a career of such work, were barely adequate for tactical purposes. In the 1920s. the State Department supported the so-called "Black Chamber." which had begun as an Army counterespionage unit in World War I, and which later succeeded in cracking some foreign codes. By this means, the U.S. officials read secret instructions from Tokyo, giving maximum and minimum bargaining positions to Japanese delegates...