Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago small Gulf, Mobile & Northern R. R.. not bound by the usual labor contract, peacefully effected a 10% wage...
William Larimer Mellon, nephew of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon and chairman of Gulf Oil Corp. was elected a member of the executive committee of Westinghouse Electric 6 Manufacturing Co. He succeeds the late Harrison Nesbit, killed in an automobile accident...
...Vagabond's hope that Harvard will avail herself of these opportunities for she can both teach much and learn much. Texas lies on the Gulf of Mexico and Massachusetts stares off at the Atlantic, but they are connected by those American traditions which went winding west in covered wagons...
...Japanese soldiers speedily occupied Mukden, the capital, and practically all other strategic points. Hundreds of Chinese were killed. Altogether there are now more than 14,000 Japanese troops in Manchuria. Additional forces had landed in Tsingtao, farther south in the province of Shantung, and gunboats appeared in the Liaotung Gulf. Since the news agency in Manchuria is under Japanese censorship, no adequate reports are available. But even from the information which has thus far reached us, it is obvious that the Japanese out-rages have wrought great haveoc in northeastern China. On the 22nd, the League of Nations signified...
...like and how he would act if he were chosen according to Eastern standards. The result is the picture here shown-Mr. Hoover seated at a spinning wheel, contemplating his navel. There is no intention to ridicule anybody with this picture. It is merely meant to illustrate the great gulf that is fixed between Eastern and Western ideas...