Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Between discussions of codes and recovery, the President found time to complete the reorganization of his Latin American diplomatic corps. As Minister to Paraguay he appointed Indiana's Author Meredith Nicholson, 67. Member of the Hoosier State's famed literary group (George Ade, Booth Tarkington, the late George Barr McCutcheon, the late James Whitcomb Riley), Author Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men) began in politics by fighting the Ku Klux Klan. He was elected Indianapolis city councilman, worked hard for a city manager plan. Though passionately fond of oratory, he has been...
...Chief split was on price fixing. One group including Harry F. Sinclair, Kenneth R. Kingsbury of Standard Oil of California, Wirt Franklin, president of the Independent Petroleum Association, wanted complete price fixing from well to consumer. The other group including the representatives of Standard Oils of New Jersey and Indiana, Texas Co., Royal Dutch Shell, Gulf, Sun, Atlantic, favored only that oil should not be sold below cost, opposed complete price fixing. A day's work brought them no nearer agreement. So General Johnson cut the knot, gave oil a code written by Secretary Ickes and James Moffett...
...last week on 27 different codes for the bituminous industry. Non-union mine operators from Pennsylvania to Tennessee, who supply 50% of U. S. soft coal, stoutly backed a $4-per-day trade agreement which virtually outlawed United Mine Workers from collective bargaining Operators of union mines in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Colorado with about 25% of the country's soft coal production favored a $5-per-day code presented by United Mine Workers. Alabama mine owners took the most reactionary position by refusing to go in under any general code, reserving the right to pay their men their...
...strength was as the strength of ten regardless of the purity of their hearts. Moffett served Standard Oil for 43 years. He was one of the lieutenants to whom John D. Rockefeller Sr. delegated the job of working out the great dissolution. He became president of Standard Oil of Indiana. And when he died in 1913 he left a son of his own name, already climbing the ladder of Standard Oil.* Last week the second James A. Moffett, vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey at a salary supposed to be $100,000 a year, having served the company...
Arizona 3, Arkansas 1, California 16, Colorado 2, Connecticut 38, Delaware 3, District of Columbia 8, Florida 3, Georgia Idaho 2, Illinois 17, Indiana 10, Iowa 6, Kansas 5, Kentucy 4, Louisiana...