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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Grace Dodge, daughter of President Bayard Dodge of the American University of Beirut, Syria, granddaughter of the late Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, copperman (Phelps Dodge) and philanthropist who gave enormous War profits to Near East Relief and other benevolences; and John Bartow Olmsted II of Buffalo; in Riverdale...
...fortune. A 74-year-old wildcatter, "Dad" Joiner has been in courts for the better part of the last four years, not because of marital difficulties but because he was the man who brought in the first well in the second greatest oil pool in the world-the East Texas Field.* Dad Joiner has been at it since 1913. He yanked up his drilling rig 400 ft. short of oil under what later became another flush and fabulous pool, the Seminole. But he made a strike here & there, and by 1927 was drilling in East Texas in an area which...
...East Texas Field is a perfect network of secret pipe lines, bypasses and other ingenious devices of knavery. Everybody knows it. Administrator Ickes has declared that if oilmen would furnish the evidence they have in their hands he could cut off every drop of hot oil in 48 hours. Oilmen swear they have turned in enough evidence to convict half the population of Texas but nothing is done...
...next Congress but oil men are now looking for relief in other directions. Just before the end of the fourth extra session of the 43rd Texas Legislature, a bill was passed giving the Railroad Commission jurisdiction over refined oil as well as crude. The swaggering individualists of East Texas have learned that heating their nonquota oil placed it in the classification of semi-refined and hence out of the Commission's reach. The new law becomes effective Dec. 25. Hoping that this will ruin Christmas for all Texas hot oil experts, the oil industry last week was talking...
...rodeo. Wandering about Times Square last week, wearing broad-brimmed Stetsons and high heels, were half a dozen rodeo performers whose names are as familiar to rodeo enthusiasts as the names of Babe Ruth, Mickey Cochrane and Dizzy Dean to sports-page readers in the East...