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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Obstacles. All oil operators working in Oklahoma will not cooperate. As soon as the Teagle-Farish restriction program was broached, President E. W. Marland of Marland Oil Co. wrote: "The producers still talk of restricting production by cooperative action, though for 50 years their every attempt along this line has proven futile. . . . Apparently, chaos reigns?but not so. The law of the survival of the fittest continues to operate uninterruptedly, and the fittest are, as usual, earnest in the argument that there should be no other law. The large companies become larger. The small become smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Organized Production | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...home for a spot of tea, when suddenly they beheld the street full of Metropolitan policemen, hastening resolutely toward the Arcos Building. Throwing a cordon about it, they rushed the open door, occupied the whole building in a twinkling; warned screaming typists and frightened clerks not to touch or attempt to destroy any paper, book or document, herded the women into one large room, the men into another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grave Step | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...alone we have access to the Father. The Roman Catholics, while they acknowledge His deity, declare that man must at least in part pay the penalty of his own sin, and that the hierarchy fills the place of intercession between the believer and a just and holy God. The attempt to unite these three religions in any way is a farce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Farce | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

President Lowell and the administration are justified in putting the question directly before the undergraduates and waiting for an answer. They do not intend to start merely another eating place which will not fulfill an absolute need. As yet no attempt has been made to discover the sentiment of upperclassmen and graduate students except through the Union club table offer. The reception of this offer for several reasons, does not seem a true indication of the feeling of upperclassmen toward a University dining hall. The duty of ascertaining this opinion is patently one for the only official undergraduate governing body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS | 5/18/1927 | See Source »

...corner of Holyoke and Mount Anburn Streets if a petition was signed by 500 students pledging themselves to eat regularly at the hall. The petition was started in circulation at once, chiefly in the Freshman Halls, and to date about 200 signatures have been secured. No organized attempt had been made to obtain names of upperclassmen and graduates, although students in the Architectural School are believed to be interested in the project. The 500 signatures were not considered to be sufficient, and the petition has been withdrawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO HALT PETITION FOR DINING HALL | 5/18/1927 | See Source »

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