Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national anthem of the U. S. The U. S. has no national anthem, officially. In an effort to induce Congress to adopt Francis Scott Key's poem as the national anthem, representatives of many a patriotic and military organization flocked before the House Judiciary Committee last week to urge enactment of a bill for that purpose. The bill's author: Maryland's Representative John Charles Linthicum from the district containing Fort McHenry, over which Key, a prisoner on a British warship, beheld his country's flag still flying on the morning of Sept. 15, 1814, after...
When Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur goes back to California and his home at Stanford University, it is to work, not to play. Last week he was hard at work there in the name of oil conservation. As his train sped him back from Los Angeles to Washington and an office stacked with the most technically complex problems of the Hoover administration, he left behind him a large group of California oil operators more conservation-conscious than ever before. Secretary Wilbur's parting words had been: "Unless oil operators quit squabbling, the government will have to take...
...Department of Justice rule that such a scheme was possibly an anti-trust violation (TIME, April 22). His third proposal was a series of state treaties under the Constitution to limit the outflow of oil. Nine oil-state governors met at Colorado Springs to cold-shoulder this plan. Last week in California, Secretary Wilbur put fresh momentum into this major Hoover policy by pleading for voluntary intrastate agreements among the oil producers...
...Lyons Act plus voluntary agreements have brought California's weekly oil production down from an average of 768,300 bbls. per week last year to 702,200 bbls. last week...
Warned Nebraska's Senator Norris last week: "Under that [Finney] decision the Secretary of the Interior is able to nullify the most important provision in the Boulder Dam Bill and give to the power trust every kilowatt of power generated by the expenditure of public money at Boulder...