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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three hours on end last week President Hoover and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sat facing each other in the White House. Solemnly they talked about the progress being made toward another conference on the limitation of naval armaments...
...mile rectangular course. Before the first lap was circled. Swimmer Vivian Lee Welsh screamed, thrashed, floundered in the water. A large lamprey eel had fastened its horny teeth into her side. Shuddering with fright, writhing with cramps, she was lifted into a Red Cross rescue boat. At the end of the first lap Martha Norelius of New York, 1928 Olympic champion lately turned professional, led, with Ruth Tower of Toronto, within splashing distance. After four more laps exhausted competitors were being lifted into escorting boats...
...end of the tenth and final mile, strong, blonde Miss Norelius led Miss Tower by 300 yards. She won $10,000, Miss Tower $3,000-their share of $15,000 prize money supplied by William Wrigley Jr., Chicago gum man, who got the idea of swimming marathons two years ago and, with $25,000 prize money, induced 150 competitors to try swimming the 20 miles from Santa Catalina Island across San Pedro Channel to the California coast (TIME...
...Inlets. Little progress has been made in efforts towards a national agreement to restrict production, an agreement which could end overnight any danger of oil drugging the market. Yet great hopes are held for the results of a California law which goes into effect in September. The law forbids oil production without proper efforts to conserve the natural gas which flows out with the oil. Enforcement of the law may reduce California's overproduction by some 250,000 barrels daily. California is at present yielding more oil than any other State. The result may be a reduction...
Hallelujah (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Before the end of this picture you get the idea that King Vidor, who wrote and directed it, does not know much about Negroes but that he has guessed and reasoned out a lot. His story, simple yet sophisticated, does not go as deep into the way a black man's mind works as, for instance, Eugene O'Neill went in Emperor Jones. It is a white man's comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind...