Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Central American Republics, it binds them not to recognize a government in one of their countries which has seized power by unconstitutional means. It was Charles Evans Hughes who established the precedent of acting as though the U. S. were bound by this treaty, using it as a formula to determine whether the U. S. should or should not recognize new regimes in Central America...
Sous les Toits de Paris (Film Sonora Co.). This pleasant little film in French is arranged according to the 1928 formula of U. S. talking pictures - a formula which the French, like other European producers, have recently become able to imitate successfully. A theme song - now obsolete in Hollywood - is heartily employed, but "Sous les Toits de Paris" is a pretty song, gay and nostalgic ; it ought to be popular if native orchestras bother to work out a dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl...
...America has already given us that perfection of methods of production. . . . Now we have reached a point where we dare hope . . . that American genius may be able to devise a definite formula which will allow this world to establish a more lasting and satisfactory balance between manufacturer and consumer. . . . For this last problem, as I see it, is the most important practical issue that faces the people of the year 1930." So last fortnight wrote Albert Einstein in a statement for the U. S. Press...
...Received from President Hoover for ratification the World Court protocols embodying the Root formula...
...past three years Treasury Department chemists-whose duty it was to denature tax-free industrial alcohol long before Prohibition-have been busy seeking a substitute for wood alcohol. Alco-tate, discovered by no one man, is a by-product of cracked California petroleum. Its formula is a Treasury secret. But Director Doran is confident that it can not be precipitated from or distilled out of grain alcohol. About Jan. 1 it will go into...