Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...semi-finals of the international hardcourt championship. She beat a nervous Dutch girl by the name of Rollin Couquerque who weighed nearly 200 pounds and made twelve double-faults. With Francis T. Hunter for partner Miss Wills played an exhibition match in Paris against Eileen Bennet (England) and Henri Cochet. All four played at top speed, laughed when they missed, congratulated each other, made jokes, and agreed with the umpire. Bennet and Cochet...
Both to harry Standard Oil on the flank and to boom up Royal Dutch-Shell goodwill throughout the British and Dutch possessions, Sir Henri has been shouting harsh things about Russian petroleum. That oil comes from wells once owned in part by British investors but now confiscated by the Soviet. Standard Oil has been buying it to sell in the East, where it has few wells, but where Royal Dutch-Shell has many. It is more profitable to Standard Oil to ship petroleum from Russia to India than from California to India. Sir Henri, therefore, has been crying loudly that...
...more effective than growls is the tangible armament under Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding's command...
Thus either Mr. Meyer, personifying his Standard Oil Co., or Sir Henri, personifying his Royal Dutch-Shell group, is like the dog of the fable, who with a good, juicy bone in his mouth walked onto a plank over a stream. In the water below he saw another dog with another bone, and he wanted the other bone...
...there the parallel ends, for the fabled dog opened his mouth to growl and thereupon dropped his own bone. And, although Sir Henri has been growling, (most indecorously for a British or a Dutch businessman), as if he were the dog on the bridge, he has not loosened his teeth from the Oriental markets. Mr. Meyer, like the dog in the stream, has made no sound in the controversy; nor has he loosened his teeth...