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...Sharpened its vigil against monopoly in the oil industry. A 1935 law stipulates that no one operator, individual or corporation may hold more than 2,560 acres of oil land in any one petroleum structure or 7,680 acres in any one State. Big companies have dominated more territory than this, however, through prospecting permits and operating contracts with prospectors. Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes ruled that the companies must include such territory in their list of holdings and (he total must cleave to the law. Object: to keep down overproduction, give wider scope to the small independents...
...dames with canes to aid their limping gait, instructors with their non-so-pretty wives, an oh! so dapper House Master in a dinner coat and burberry, Cambridge hoydens, Freshmen wondering what it is all about, musty little people disgorged by the library to dust themselves off from their vigil among the books in the tombs, secretaries, to some dean--you don't know which,--but you've see them in University Hall--Radcliffe and debutantes on the loose--such is the group that gathers round the steps of Widener to hear the Glee Club under the evening...
...vigil of the Feast of the Nativity last week, 29 Roman Catholic cardinals gathered in the Vatican's Consistory Hall to tender greetings to His Holiness Pope Pius XI, to hear his reply which would go to the world as a Christmas message next day. Pius XI spoke only of one sorrow-the state of the Church in Germany-in an emotion-choked voice which was not broadcast because the 80-year-old Pontiff's words no longer sound clear over the radio. Said the Pope...
...France. Petit Parisien headlined its story: "American Dancer Runs Away and Tries to Extort Money from Aunt." French police were not entirely remiss, however. The mysterious Bobby was suspected of being an habitue of the Pavilion Bleu at St. Cloud. Night & day detectives watched the Pavilion Bleu, abandoned their vigil only when wreckers arrived and tore it down...
...coupé, license 4Y-7607. That was the car in which a man had been making calls at the post office in Topeka. If he came back, the general delivery clerk was to give the tip-off to Agent Baker. On the third noon of Agent Baker's vigil, the clerk gave the signal...