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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Donovan was well aware that he was defending as big a batch of U. S. bigwigs as ever was put on trial. Summoned to Madison last October on the criminal charges of conspiracy to raise and fix gasoline prices were 26 major and subsidiary oil companies, three oil trade journals and 56 oil tycoons. By last week charges had been dismissed against all but 16 companies and 30 men. In 1935 and 1936, according to the Government, these companies and men got together to buy gasoline from independent refiners in the spot markets of east Texas and Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Resolute Jury | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Twenty-two preparatory and high schools will compete tomorrow afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building in the Fourth Annual Harvard Interscholastic Swimming met. Trial heats start at 2 o'clock and finals at 8 in the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOL SPLASHERS TO GATHER HERE TOMORROW | 1/28/1938 | See Source »

...street. When the young zealot, Abd El Kadar, was arraigned in court, Nahas instead of demanding the extreme penalty contemptuously asked damages of one piastre (5?). Lest the Wafd make too much capital of this disdain. Premier Mahmoud's Government hastily held Abd El Kadar for criminal trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Five Cent Shot | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Chicago, for eight years a German teacher with a good record at Amherst College. De Paul shortly changed its mind, told Dr. Fuller that he "would not fit into the picture." Dr. Fuller brought suit for $2,000. Though the jury's verdict was in his favor, the trial judge set it aside. Last week the Appellate Court upheld the trial judge. Reason: According to De Paul, ten years ago John B. Fuller was Rev. Bernard J. Fuhler, Austrian-born priest of the Society of the Divine Word, who taught at St. Mary's College (Techny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fuller | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Most interested railroad in the experimental coaches is Santa Fe, which loaned ten miles of sidetrack and ,an engine for the trial runs. To show them to other U. S. roads the designers plan to install two Ford V-8 engines to enable the coaches to cruise about the country under their own power. Delighted with the steadiness of the coaches during tests at 50 m.p.h., Sponsor Hill-whose previous railroad experience consists of three weeks in the Great Northern shops at St. Paul during childhood-pronounced his cars "jounce-less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Jounceless | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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