Word: co
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Mrs. Hoover was a co-ed at Stanford, she knew and liked Marguerite May Blake there, a serious-minded girl studying medicine. Miss Blake married Ray Lyman Wilbur, whom Herbert Hoover was to choose for his Secretary of the Interior. Mrs. Wilbur is Mrs. Hoover's closest friend in official Washington...
...report that he held the office of Secretary of the Treasury illegally because of stock ownership in industrial corporations. An ancient statute prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from being interested in "trade or commerce." Mr. Mellon freely admitted that he owns stock in the Aluminum Co. of America and other big concerns, but explained that he had resigned all his directorships and other business offices upon entering Federal service (TIME, April...
Senators Norris of Nebraska and Walsh of Montana led the last of the nipper-snapping against Secretary Mellon. They dug up an Aluminum Co. court case in which Mr. Mellon had deposed that he was consulted on important points of policy and from this attempted to argue that he was still in "trade or commerce...
President Hoover commended this voluntary action of the carriers as "a fine act of co-operation...
...symposium on the structure of molecules, Dr. Irving Langmuir, President of the Society and assistant director of research for General Electric Co., told of studies of oil films on water. Experiment showed that these films are only one molecule thick, all molecules arranged in one direction, with "their heads up and their tails down," as it were, showing that the molecules have different properties on different sides. What was more, a talking movie was exhibited showing some of his experiments. In the opening scene a toy boat sped across a pan of water propelled by a piece of camphor...