Word: kelleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another thing that the public probably did not know until last week was that Ralph S. Kelley, author of the above paragraph, had been for six years chief of the field division of the Department of the Interior's general land office at Denver. The public may hear more of Chief Kelley and the Western Colorado oil fields to which he referred, because last week, in submitting his resignation to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, he charged that large unnamed oil companies were trying to steal this property from the U. S. Mr. Kelley's letter...
Declared Mr. Kelley of the Colorado shale-oil fields: "This is the huge prize to which the large oil interests are endeavoring to secure titles by fraud and failure to comply with the U. S. mining laws. . . . Among those in this combination are several of the very concerns whose fraudulent practices have so recently been exposed in the investigations and trials of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair and others...
...clock, Publisher Black's valet looked for him in the saloon, in his cabin, on deck. There he found his employer's handkerchief. He ran to the bridge to tell Capt. John M. Kelley. The Sabalo put about. Foot by foot a searchlight's bright shaft swept a circle about the idling yacht, found only its own zig-zag reflection. (The owner's yachting cap was fished from the sea two days later...
Toward midnight Boatswain R. Anderson of the Coast Guard Patrol Boat No. 215 sighted the Sabalo's wavering beacon, overtook her. What happened next was a matter of strange dispute. Capt. Kelley later charged that C. G. 215 ignored his plea for help and steamed away. Boatswain Anderson insisted his offer of aid had been declined, that he had trailed the Sabalo which, he said, steamed for about an hour with its searchlight turned...
...gross comes from golf shafts, fishing rods, snowshoes, skis; another 5% from railway appliances like joint shims and rail anchors. Yet its chief income is from farm tools, in which it handles 60% of the U. S. trade. Last week this business was expanded when a merger with Kelley Axe & Tool Co. of Charleston, W. Va., and Skelton Shovel Co. of Dunkirk, N. Y., was proposed. American Fork & Hoe is a typical large, closely held company. Its assets are near $10.000,000. Its earnings have never been disclosed to a curious public. President and general manager of the company...