Word: buts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At Texon, Tex., the Group One Oil Corp., had drilled an oil well to 8,525 feet when I left that vicinity last fall. The well came in on low production but, to the amazement of oil men, volume both of gas and oil began to mount soon after, increasing...
A great advocate of The Home during the campaign, President Hoover has surprised nobody by the fewness of his appointments of women to public offices. But lately he put aside his feeling against women as officeholders long enough to listen to arguments by his Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William...
The Japanese naval demands: 1) 70% of the largest auxiliary fleet allowed the U. S. or Britain; 2) a flexible interchange of auxiliary tonnage between categories; 3) retention of their full submarine strength of 71 ships (78,497 tons). Like good diplomats, they were ready to give in on demands...
"There was much speculation in Japanese . . . circles as to the reason for his [Adams'] absence. . . . A second conference is to be held, but the name of the Secretary of the Navy is not on the list. . . The public would be vastly reassured if the Secretary of the Navy should...
"It is quite clear that it is the deliberate intention of that editorial to attempt to make trouble among the American delegates, to discredit our Government before the Japanese delegation and thus to try to cause a breakdown of the London conference. . . . The Washington Post has a full right to...