Word: drake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade. It was the world's third largest producer of crude when William Larimer Mellon retired from the presidency in 1931. He and Uncle Andrew surveyed the list of Mellon first-string executives and selected as Gulf's new president a lean, handsome man of 51 named James Frank Drake...
...feature, "Ladies Should Listen," is a highly entertaining comedy of Parisian high life featuring Cary Grant and a starry-eyed newcomer named Frances Drake. It seems evident that our good censors do not object to a certain amount of sugared iniquity, providing it takes place in an apartment of the proper opulence, and also providing that apartment be situated in Parts. After all, with so many Frenchmen around, one must expect that sort of thing. Placed as foil to Grant's sophistication is the doddering Edward Everett Horton...
Divorced. Oliver Hart Palmer Garrett, 37, oldtime New York World reporter, cinema writer and adapter (Moby Dick, City Streets, If I Had a Million, Story of Temple Drake); and Mrs. Louis Mumford Gignoux Garrett; in Los Angeles...
While Mr. Sinclair was stepping ashore in Manhattan, the rest of U. S. oildom was assembled in the rain at Titusville, Pa., celebrating the 75th anniversary of the drilling of the first oil well by the late Col. Edwin I. Drake. The celebration was no love feast. While Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania smiled on the speakers' platform, Axtell J. Byles of the American Petroleum Institute keynoted: "Upon the rock of rugged individualism this nation was founded...
...Depression. If Cavalcade wins the Saratoga Cup, he will be well on his way to equalling Man o' War's record. If he also wins?as horsemen last week considered him likely to do?a proposed international race against Windsor Lad, winner of the English Derby, and Admiral Drake, winner of the Grand Prix, he may well join Man o' War as the model for great U. S. racehorses of the future...