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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generally, when I have a news item for local publication and same is written up, there prevails an atmosphere foreign to the oil fields. A lot of phrases are always included that we never use around a rig, it sort of conveys the idea that perhaps the society editor was doing the reporting. After I read pp. 52-53 in TIME, I had the feeling that you knew more about producing oil and gas and acidizing than I. So convinced am I that I'll bet a dollar to a slug that you have seen more than one well...
...itself takes the initiative. After a preliminary investigation, the FTC may issue a formal complaint against the offender, giving him 20 days to reply. Then FTC holds hearings, comes to a decision. If it is an affirmative decision, FTC then issues a cease-&-desist order, which is a sort of informal injunction. A cease-&-desist order may be appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals and then to the Supreme Court but reversals are rare. Since 1933 more than 50 FTC cases have reached the Supreme Court but FTC lost only one and that by a 5-to-4 decision...
Wisconsin's new law offers a sort of personal receivership to debtors earning less than $2,400 a year. By applying to the District Court the debtor may protect himself from garnishee actions for a period of two years during which a referee designated by the court supervises paying off his bills in installments, sees to it that he is allowed enough of his earnings to feed and care for his dependents...
...devoted service embroils the Cathedral in the worst mess that ever rose out of a canon's past. An unbending traditionalist, he fidgets through the first scene with misgivings about the new Dean-a rawboned, sympathetic Cambridge scholar named Mallinson, whose wife, a tall, witty, Virginia Woolf sort of character, is the author's voice for a detached account of Cathedral life. Added to these central characters are the staff of functionaries who make up the tightly-organized, beautifully-landscaped, fabulous world of a great English cathedral. Lay characters appear in sufficient numbers to afford a gossip circuit...
...goes about with a small, expensive camera taking photographs of fortifications, air fields and the like, collects trade secrets, lets nothing escape his foxy eyes, but rarely writes a travel book. Travel books by Japanese women are even rarer. Japanese Lady in Europe, the travel diary of a sort of Japanese Provincial Lady calling herself merely "a chatterbox," fits none of these specifications. Aside from its interest as the work of a Japanese observer, readers will find its pert, oblique commentaries on travel-worn Europe refreshing in their own right. Haruko Ichikawa is a granddaughter of the late Viscount Shibusewa...