Word: marcus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Esmond Marcus David...
...American Boy's most famed fiction character is Marcus Aurelius Fortunatus Tidd, who first appeared in 1913 while his creator, Clarence Budington Kelland, was managing editor. A Mark Tidd serial is still running in the magazine. Mark Tidd...
FOILS: Perlowin (Y) defeated Jaros (H), 5-2, Hones (H), 5-0, and Labastie (H), 5-2. Marcus (Y) defeated Labastle (H), 5-3. Jaros (H) defeated Marcus (Y), 5-2, and Dimock (Y), 5-2. Jones (H), defeated Marcus (Y), 5-2, and Dimock (Y), 5-1. Labastie (H) defeated Dimock...
Then he teamed up with the Rothschilds and Sir Marcus Samuel, who had made Shell Transport & Trading Co. the most powerful oil company in England. They fought Standard Oil for a market in China, won it in spite of the millions of kerosene lamps Standard gave away. By this time Deterding was director of the combined companies, now known as the Royal Dutch-Shell group. For the next decade he busied himself grabbing up oil properties in Venezuela, Mexico, California...
...Marcus' original Shell company had guaranteed the British navy oil in peace or war. Deterding won his knighthood by transporting that oil, not in tankers, but as ballast instead of water in ordinary ships -thereby fooling the German submarines and keeping the guarantee to the Admiralty. His part in the post-War oil scramble was less heroic. When the U. S. S. R. nationalized the Baku oil fields he began to fulminate against the Bolsheviki and later, they charged, to plot. He backed Hitler in Germany, added a German residence to his English, Dutch and Swiss homes...