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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Free at last of all charges growing out of the 1922 oil scandals, Oilman Sinclair spent the night in Washington, motored next day to seclusion on his Rancocas stock farm at Jobstown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Sinclair Steps Out | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Then came merciful periods of stupor, some natural, some induced by morphine. To keep the great heart beating, Sister Theoneste injected hot camphorated oil. When he coughed and choked she gave a little oxygen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clemenceau | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Many are the smoke, dirt, and odor "nuisances" which cause citizens to heckle corporations. Last week in Toledo one Herbert D. Widmer sued Toledo Seed & Oil Co., subsidiary of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., for $25,000. Charge: Castor bean dust released by the defendant's plant caused Plaintiff Widmer to contract asthma. Eagerly awaiting the suit's outcome are more than 250 asthmatic Toledans, some of whom had to drive into the country of nights to escape the castor bean dust before the City Council recently ordered the plant shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Asthma | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Died. Warwick Greene, 49, president of New England Oil Refining Co. ; at Boston; after an operation. Onetime (1910-1915) Director of Philippine Public Works, he was Director of Rockefeller Foundation War Relief Commission (1916), served in France and Belgium with the American Red Cross commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...modern Canaan. But under the rule of the British mandate both Jew and Arab were irked. Growing bad feeling culminated in August with the Arab anti-Jewish riots in Palestine. Last week Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, Chancellor of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, sought to pour more oil on the subsiding waters of Palestine. Said he: ''Palestine can never be a Jewish national home. It will always be an international home for Jews, Christians and Arabs alike." Added Dr. Magnes: Jews must renounce the idea of political domination, should be willing to make Palestine a binational State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zionfor All? | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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