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...spouted into the air. That well at Spindletop was to turn out more oil in the first three years than all the wells of Pennsylvania combined. It remade the oil business. Unable to cope with a financial find of such magnitude the Jugoslav and his backer called in Colonel Guffey of Pittsburgh. Guffey soon called in the Mellons. Andrew Mellon bought out the discoverer for $400,000. The $15,000,000 Guffey Petroleum Co. (later Gulf Oil) was founded-40% Mellon owned to begin with-more as time went on. In the midst of these busy times, Andrew Mellon, aged...
...Picked as U. S. Minister to Austria, today's hot spot of Central Europe, was George Hansell Earle Jr., polo-playing Philadelphia socialite. A onetime Republican, he supported Franklin Roosevelt last year. His appointment, first diplomatic patronage to go to Pennsylvania, had the endorsement of Joe Guffey, the State's Democratic boss. After his Harvard graduation (1913) Mr. Earle roamed Germany and Austria for two years, served in the Navy during the War, is now vice president of Pennsylvania Sugar Co., a director of the Philadelphia Record. Dark, handsome, husky, he lives with his wife and four children...
...Harold M. Stephen, Florida's Frank J. Wideman to be Assistant Attorneys General; Tennessee's John Harcourt Alexander Morgan* and Wisconsin's David E. Lilienthal to be Tennessee Valley Authority directors; Pennsylvania's Carroll Miller, brother-in-law of Demo-cratic Boss "Joe" Guffey, to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. ¶A White House caller last week was pretty Margaret Kruis, who was wounded in the head last February when Joe Zangara attempted to assassinate the President-elect at Miami. President Roosevelt recalled that he had visited Miss Kruis at the hospital after the shooting, found...
...industrial fires already glowing, he had irons in other fires just kindling. Nine years had passed since he had bought into Aluminum Co. of America and the investment began to look promising. He held a lot of bonds in an oil company sponsored by that picturesque Pittsburgher, J. M. Guffey. Six years later those bonds were to give him control of the company which would turn into great Gulf Oil and an impregnable fortune...
...Joseph Guffey, of Pennsylvania...