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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manifestoes, even took down the famed Will that Dr. Sun Yat-sen delivered on his deathbed. He was a graduate of the Law College at Tokyo. He traveled often in Europe, learned to speak fluent French, several times took diabetes cures in Germany. He was there when the present war started. For more than two years he was China's Premier...
Last week a tall, tanned geophysicist and petroleum engineer named Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. addressed the Institute of Radio Engineers in San Francisco. He told them how seismographic or "artificial earthquake" methods of prospecting for oil had improved in recent years. Technique at present is to bore a hole 500 ft. deep, drop a dynamite charge to the bottom. When the charge is exploded, vibrations resembling earthquake waves ripple out in all directions. Some travel straight down, and part of them are reflected back up with different intensities from layers of rock, sandstone, limestone, shale. Geophones on the surface pick...
...Rushmore Patterson rushed off to South Dakota to attend ceremonies with the Gutzon Borglums at Mt. Rushmore† (named for her late, great lawyer father, Charles E. Rushmore) WOR officials queried her as to the future trend of U. S. Drama, Inc. She revealed that she hoped to present Liberty Leaguer John W. Davis in a program soon. The officials wondered if it might not be circumspect to put someone of opposite political faith on the program, too - perhaps a New Dealer...
...Late in the summer of 1928 they signed a famed document: the first mine union contract in Colorado's history. Its far-seeing purpose: "To establish industrial justice, substitute reason for violence, integrity and good faith for dishonest practices, and a union of effort for the chaos of present economic warfare...
Last week Lang Williams and "Jock" Whitney decided the time had come to bring another youngster into the business, to keep it in step with present-day social trends. They announced an old friend of Lang Williams' as a new director of Freeport Sulphyr: husky, 38-year-old Alan Valentine (onetime Swarthmore footballer and Phi Beta Kappa), now president of wealthy, Eastman-endowed University of Rochester. Alan Valentine will commute from Rochester, N. Y. to Manhattan for directors' meetings, will draw the regular director's fee (normally between $10 and $20 a meeting...