Word: american
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...worldwide crusade of prayer for conversion of Latin American Indians began, by the Pope's orders, the end of last month...
...America has already given us that perfection of methods of production. . . . Now we have reached a point where we dare hope . . . that American genius may be able to devise a definite formula which will allow this world to establish a more lasting and satisfactory balance between manufacturer and consumer. . . . For this last problem, as I see it, is the most important practical issue that faces the people of the year 1930." So last fortnight wrote Albert Einstein in a statement for the U. S. Press...
...which in turn leads to wastefulness and disregard of essential values." Fear of anti-trust prosecution has retarded oil curtailment in the U. S. In certain states there seems no legal way to coerce small producers. The Federal Oil Conservation Board has suggested a six-day refinery week; the American Petroleum Institute since its organization in 1920 has championed curtailment; California's law prohibiting the waste of natural gas has been a way to force reduced production. Now many oilmen hope the conception of an oilfield as a mutually owned unit will be the solution. Production by Royal Dutch...
Hale Holden, chairman of the executive committee of Southern Pacific Co. was elected a director of American Telephone & Telegraph...
...shake-up were soon apparent : U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde objected to a Bilbo appointee at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College, one Lee Denson, threat to withdraw Federal aid ($340,000 Governor Bilbo gave in, re Mr. Denson with L. A. Olsen, agree to Secretary Hyde. The American Medical Association served notice that unless members of the University's faculty of medicine were re it would use its influence to pre vent Mississippi graduates from practicing any other State. Governor Bilbo rein stated medical teachers, gave the new head of the faculty (approved...