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Between 1865, the year after he married Laura Spelman, a Cleveland schoolteacher, and 1872, he evolved and put into prompt practice the basic principle on which Standard Oil achieved its power- buy out competitors at pistol point or destroy them if they refuse to sell. Monopoly of oil was his objective almost from the start. The pistol he used was the secret rebate, the notorious device by which a shipper got a refund on his railroad freight, enabling him to undersell competitors. Rockefeller carried this one step further by bludgeoning the railroads into giving him not only a rebate...
Cafe Metropole (Twentieth Century-Fox). When the suave proprietor (Adolphe Menjou) of the Paris cafe where she is dining with her father and aunt tells her that a Russian prince, Alexis Panaieff, requests the honor of being presented to her, Laura Ridgeway (Loretta Young) is delighted. She recognizes the prince (Tyrone Power) as a young American whom she has encountered once before, and when his preposterous Russian accent makes it doubly clear that he is an impostor, she decides definitely to marry him. What Laura does not know is that marrying her is Prince Alexis' job, assigned...
Sued. John Daniel Miller Hamilton, 45, Republican National Chairman: by Mrs. Laura Hall Hamilton; for separate maintenance for herself, Son Daniel, 20 (a University of Kansas freshman) and Daughter Laura, 12; in Topeka. Kans. Grounds: "gross neglect of duty, abandonment and extreme cruelty...
...LAURA RIDING...
Married. Evelyn Waugh, 33, British satirist (Decline & Fall, Vile Bodies); and Laura Herbert, 20; in London...