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...Lazaro Cardenas, originator of "The Mexican New Deal" (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934), who, the night before, had decreed expropriation of the $400,000,000 foreign oil investment, held largely by subsidiaries of Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil of New Jersey and California and Sinclair oil companies. U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, to whom U. S. correspondents excitedly suggested that the Roosevelt "good neighbor" policy may have convinced Mexican workers that they can take U.S.property with President Roosevelt's tacit approval, replied: "Neither President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull nor I knew about the expropriation in advance. . . . It came...
...dependent upon taxes paid by foreign oil interests. Oilmen, already spouting over vigorous President Cardenas' expropriation of 850,000 acres of undeveloped oil lands leased by foreigners, objected vigorously and the wage problem was referred to a Mexican board of arbitration and conciliation. Even friendly U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels protested...
Sitting on a hosiery patent infringement suit, Bachelor-Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds asked: "What does 'full-fashioned' mean?" Answered Benedict-Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts: "It means that a stocking is made to fit the contours...
...companies refused to pay the increase, offered to settle with an increase of $3,000,000. Since then the matter has been under consideration by the Mexican Board of Arbitration and Conciliation, which has also had to consider an unusually strong warning from U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels, who threatened that "anything that would disturb the status quo and good relations would be regretted...
Died. Atlee Pomerene, 73, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Democratic Senator from Ohio, prosecutor, with Owen Josephus Roberts, of Teapot Dome oil lease cases under Calvin Coolidge, board chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under Herbert Hoover; of pneumonia; in Cleveland...