Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Garfield Rays, prominent New York lawyer, will deliver an address at Harvard tomorrow when he speaks at the Liberal Club. 66 Winthrop Street, on the subject. "Civil Liberty in America." The lecture will be at 1.30 o'clock and will be open to all members of the University...
...died as he would have preferred to die, in France and at his post of duty, and he goes back to America as he would have liked to go, with the flags of both countries floating over...
...added a vast manufacturing unit (International Standard Electric Corp.); two cable companies (All-American Cables, Inc., Commercial Cable Co.); a telegraph company (Postal Telegraph and Cable Corp.); a radio company (Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co.). It had invaded five states (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay) of Latin America. Last week, unnoticed in the merger excitement, it picked up the U. S. & Haiti Cable Co., opening a new line between New York and the West Indies...
...meeting itself, its outstanding result was an agreement to restrict 1929 oil production in North and South America to approximate its 1928 output of 1,075,369,847 barrels. Output of various companies will be pro-rated by five regional committees; restriction is apparently on a voluntary "gentlemen's agreement" basis. Had the U. S. oilmen been European oilmen, they might have drawn up a very solemn legal compact involving fines for overproduction and compensation for underproduction. But despite the fact that President Coolidge in 1924 appointed a Federal Oil Conservation Board which consistently recommended co-operation within...
Died. Katharine Lee Bates, 69, of Wellesley, Mass., professor emeritus of English literature of Wellesley College, authoress of the hymn "America the Beautiful"; in Wellesley...