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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sisters of Charity were the only U. S. nuns to go overseas during the War. U. S. Sisters have their own candidate for Sainthood: Venerable Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) who founded a U. S. branch in Maryland and whose cause is being promoted for beatification (TIME, Aug...
...advertisement in the newspapers. For his first Mexican concert he hired 40 players. By the time he reached the 29th concert he had no musicians under his baton. When he returned to New York in the summer he conducted the Philharmonic in the Stadium series (TIME, Aug. 21). Twice the audience rose to cheer him. But Iturbi well knew when he went to Philadelphia that a formal winter engagement would be a stiffer test, that success depended largely on the response of the men at rehearsals...
...Prairie Oil in 1929 for $35,000,000, he still had 112 wells in Oklahoma producing 20,000 bbl. a day. These holdings, known as the Slick-Urschel Oil Co., have been managed since his death by Charles F. Urschel, ransomed from kidnappers last summer (TIME, July 31, Aug. 7), and by Mrs. Slick who became Mrs. Urschel. Slick Oil has sold most of its output to Stanolind Crude Oil Purchasing Co. (Standard Oil of Indiana). In recent months, despite overproduction, other major oil companies have been seeking new crude sources. Oilmen are jealous of their reserves and no flush...
...turn for his promise to call a commission to study Canada's whole banking, currency and coinage system. Head of this com mission, which shuttled all over the Dominion holding public hearings last summer and autumn, was Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron of Aberfeldy (TIME. Aug. 28, Nov. 20). For ten years Lord Macmillan had been heading British com missions including the Royal Commission on Lunacy & Mental Disorder and the Home Office Committee on Street Of fences. His most publicized job was "The Macmillan Report," which he wrote as head of the British Treasury Committee on Finance & Industry and which...
Left. By Alfred Pritchard Sloan Sr. (died Aug. 30, 1932). father of General Motors Corp.'s president: $2,297,220; to his widow, sister, children, charity...