Word: caning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motor tires and 5,000 rubber heels daily. The formula is the work of one Julio Tellez Giron, 46, research chemist who spent 17 years developing his theory that petroleum in its early stages closely resembles rubber. His process is to take crude petroleum, mix it with ground sugar cane. This compound is refined, fried in the sun, vulcanized with sulphur.* Compania Hulera Mexicana is capitalized at $115,000, has for directors sub-Secretary of War General Abelardo Rodriquez, Secretary of Industry Aron Saenz, Foreign Secretary Genaro Estrada...
...Borah Night the Trocadéro was packed with French patriots, hottest among them being the blue-shirted Fascists of Les Jeunesses Patriotes and Paris's stalwart, cane-swinging young Royalists, Les Camelots du Roi. When Senator Borah stood up to broadcast from quiet Washington he little suspected that wildest pandemonium was already loose beneath the Trocadéro loudspeakers that were to shout his words. A message from the Archbishop of Canterbury which Viscount...
...case of Dr. John Earle Uhler, ousted from Louisiana State University last October because of his novel Cane Juice (TIME, Oct. 26), was closed last fortnight when the University paid his year's salary in full. The American Civil Liberties Union, which had wished a court action, uttered grumps...
...spectators scream with laughter. Funny man Clark did his best to discard Mr. Arno's inane libretto, inject into the proceedings his own particular brand of in sanity. The simple burlesque business that Mr. Clark knows best consists chiefly in manhandling a cigar, shooting people with a trick cane equipped with a rubber-tube to blow smoke through, ogling all pretty girls through spectacles painted on his face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this Mr. Clark has done many times before with success. Bad press notices and the lack of any outstand ing talent...
Lean, highbrowed, toothbrush-mustached Dr. Uhler issued a detailed defense of Cane Juice, pointed out errors in Mgr. Gassier's charges. He said that the attack indicated the decline of "charitable spirit" and the troubled condition of Christianity. Nonetheless, he respected the Catholic Church. Though Episcopalian himself, he said he was related to twelve priests, three bishops, one archbishop, one monk. He announced he would sue Mgr. Gassier for defamation and libel. The American Civil Liberties Union, always happy to have a cause to champion, offered to support a suit to recover this year's salary in full...