Word: joiners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sheriff Guy Joiner of Boss Crump's Shelby County made a face. "Should these so-called State police show up in this county carrying pistols," said he, "I'll put every one of 'em in jail...
...with a billion barrels of oil being produced in the U. S., the price was $1.27 a barrel, high enough to give a company like Gulf Oil $44,000,000 in profits. Then a wildcatter named Dad Joiner brought in a well in East Texas and. within a year crude was selling...
...them. . . . The boys will appreciate it more if they have to dig the money out themselves." The people who will do the digging now are J. K. Wadley of Texarkana and H. L. Hunt of Tyler, Texas. Mr. Hunt bought out the interests of Columbus Marion ("Dad") Joiner, the oldtime wildcatter who brought in the East Texas oil field in 1930. Mr. Wadley got his start on Louis iana & Arkansas R. R., made a fortune in Porter-Wadley Lumber Co., is now one of the biggest independent oil operators in East Texas...
...went to Princeton (Class of 1888), then into the ministry by way of Union Theological Seminary. When he was about 30, his father summoned him to learn the family business, but his deep religious feeling has found outlets in innumerable charities and philanthropies. Cultured, musical, humorous, an inveterate joiner, he lives half the year in a big mansion on Manhattan's East 66th Street, half the year on an estate in Sea Bright...
...Member of Parliament A. P. Herbert, famed Punch contributor, wrote on sailing day, "As for the cabins-as for the eiderdowns, and the spacious beds, and the cupboards and looking-glasses and bathrooms . . . some British Homer should . . . describe where grew the trees that gave those polished panels, what cunning joiner it was that fitted them, what sempstress, nay, what silkworm it was that worked upon the bedcovers...