Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Pacific Coast properties, a 40% slice of the Elwood field, and a half interest in Kettleman Oil Corp.) has been Jean Paul's springboard. Pacific Western is a considerable producer but lacks outlets. In the spring of 1932 J. Paul Getty started collecting the stock of Tide Water Associated Oil Co. (which in 1926 acquired control of Associated Oil Co). Tide Water Associated has plenty of outlets but lacks production. It is also five times the size of Pacific Western. Last week it was announced that Pacific Western, Jean Paul Getty and friends, had acquired...
...dollar with a fixed gold content, charging that dollar uncertainty prevented recovery, upset Government credit. The same day the President on his way South (see p. 7) quoted John Stuart Mill's statement: ''History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them." He admitted that the Administration was "guilty of great experimentation" in its efforts to harness the tide...
...appearing in the Sunday supplements of the New York papers. But in Spain it is yet a new and exciting thing. Just a year ago women suffrage was proclaimed, and today its proclaimed are aghast at the results; the hand that fed has been severely lacerated. In the full tide of political and psychological revolution the unqualified suffrage was bestowed by generous radical; in the recent elections to the Cortes a Conservative victory has been achieved through the solid vote of large blocs of the female population. Behind the defeat of the Socialist party appears to lurk the shadow...
...murder and passion in the tradition of the great dramatists. The actors' innocent prattle of art and souls off-stage and on becomes a ghoulish poison running through the unconscious town. The butcher inexpertly throws an axe at his wife. Jim Clancy jumps off the pier at low tide. It rains and rains. Finally the local member of the Dail Eireann, an odd character who looks part penguin, part shellfish (Ralph Cullinan), is moved by his recollection of a performance of Playwright Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People to vote against the Government and force...
...secure as Prime Minister, but the Labor Party scored a net gain of 188 municipal council seats and six months later Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald won Labor's greatest victory in the general election of May 1929 and sent Mr. Bald win packing. Again three years ago the tide was seen to turn when Labor suffered a net loss of 80 municipal seats in November 1930. Scot MacDonald turned his political coat with the tide, joined forces with Conservative Baldwin, announced himself a "National Laborite" (for which he was expelled by the Labor Party) and has carried...