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Superficially it would appear that the Standard Oil, which was dissolved into 38 separate companies in 1911 by order of the U. S. Supreme Court, was an incoherent concern. Among the disjuncta membra of 1911 are the Anglo-American Oil Co., the Atlantic Refining Co., Borne, Serymser Co., Buckeye Pipe Line Co., Crescent Pipe Line Co., Cumberland Pipe Line Co., Eureka Pipe Line Co., Galena-Signal Oil Co., Illinois Pipe Line Co., Indiana Pipe Line Co., National Transit Co., National Transit Pump and Machinery Co., New York Transit Co., Northern Pipe Line Co., Ohio Oil Co., Mid-Kansas...
...charges that these text-books were written or revised by their authors during or after the war with a view toward destroying the traditional American patriotic views of the wars between this country and Great Britain. He sees the real purpose of the writers to be aiming at an Anglo-American union based on British rather than American superiority...
...growing numbers has nothing in common with the British but their language. The Germans, Italians, Jews and Slavic peoples who have been immigrating in steady streams, have no national cordiality for England; and these transplanted colonies have failed to accept the prevailing traditions and friendships,--which are essentially British. Anglo-American kinship, once close, has become more and more remote...
...efforts toward mutual understanding. Association must, in the future, develop the sympathy which has hitherto resulted from the ties of blood. And whatever regrets one may feel at the decrease in the proportion of Anglo-Saxon Americans should be diverted to efforts, such as Mrs. Davison's, to perpetuate Anglo-American unity...
...Matin (edited by Stephen Lausanne, a welcome guest in many American homes), the semi-official Temps, the Midi, the Liberte. The text, as a rule, is either the Washington limitation of armaments plan or the debts. Exhibit "A" from the Liberte: " We were the victims at Washington of an Anglo-American combination and two questions of money prevent us from escaping...