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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fields and refineries. President Holmes, whose library on Napoleon is extensive, found this interest very annoying. Texaco has had a tradition of down right individualism ever since it was founded by John Warne ("Bet-a-Million") Gates & friends in 1902 - a longshot bet on a little $3,000,000 concern which had grown out of a wildcat gusher in the Spindletop pool. Ralph Holmes went to Texaco at its founding. Grandson of an oilman, he was raised in Olean, N. Y. near the Pennsylvania oil fields, quit school to go into refining. For Texaco he helped develop the famed Holmes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Texaco Tussle | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...Farm Front on which he had already fired his heaviest guns was giving President Roosevelt his chief concern. Prices, he declared, must go up another 50%. How this was to be accomplished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Next? | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Someone might well ask the question, "What voice have the Freshmen in the affairs of the Union, which of course vitally concern them?" The answer is that the Class is represented by the Freshman Union Committee, composed of first-year men selected on the basis of dormitory representation by the deans and proctors. Its duty is to co-operate with the Graduate Secretary of the Union in managing Union activities. The names of men chosen for the 1937 Union Committee will be announced in the CRIMSON at an early date and complaints and suggestions can be made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Functions as Center of Social Life for 1937 Described by Graduate | 9/22/1933 | See Source »

...lingua franca of the world. Local coinage will be replaced by the "air-dollar"-valued at one cubic metre weighing ten kilograms and traveling 200 kilometres at 100 km.p.h. By 1965 Wells reaches the bottom of his stocking, triumphantly extracts the Modern World-State as a going concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chatty Casandra | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...Halsey, Stuart & Co., President Edward John Doyle of Commonwealth Edison and Stanley Field of Continental Illinois National Bank. The five-pronged charge was that the Insulls & friends had transferred $2,500,000 from their Corporation Securities Co. between Nov. 2, 1931 and Jan. 20, 1932 when they knew their concern was already insolvent to the tune of $11,000,000 and about to crash. The cash transfers were used to pay preferred dividends, increase collateral, reduce bank debts. Under the 1932 U. S.-Greek treaty, violation of the bankruptcy law is specified as an extraditable offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Insull Hunt No. 2 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

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