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Independent producers in the field denounce proration, as do lease-owners. A large group of them have retained onetime (1927-31) Governor Dan Moody as attorney, will seek an injunction against proration. A champion of these discontented forces is Carl L. Estes, editor of the Morning Telegraph and Courier-Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moaning Giant | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

The plot is typical of Lawrence: a struggle between prurient prudishness and primitive purity. Yvette is the younger of two daughters of an English parson. Her mother had run away with another man, is no longer mentioned. Yvette's grandmother has taken her daughter-in-law's place in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Front!* | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

An unusually restless, talkative throng of members in the National Association of Audubon Societies filed into a large room at the American Museum of Natural History last week for their 26th annual meeting. Instead of telling each other about the last oriole they had seen or how their new wren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bird Fight (Cont.) | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

For the rest of the book, Colfax is struggling to take his wife away from the easy, if empty life of their parents and their friends. His wife is perfectly satisfied where she is, and has all the non-aggressive, but immovable resistance of the Plymouth Rock. Her beauty and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Novel for Copy | 10/30/1930 | See Source »

President Williams required all his urbanity and parliamentary skill to keep the convention's business meetings from riot. Many Negro Baptists have become discontented with his long tenure of the presidency. This year they had as a sword over his head a scandal.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Negro Baptists | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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