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...once it looked as if the Administration meant business. President Roosevelt, pelted with demands for action, declared that adequate enforcement of the Oil Code was necessary to prevent surpluses accumulating. Having received his orders from Attorney General Cummings. L. R. Martineau Jr., the new special oil prosecutor, darted by plane to the East Texas Field to lead a platoon of Federal agents into the murky forest of 10,000 derricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Boiling Oil | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...smart Los Angeles lawyer named Martineau was made a Special Assistant U. S. Attorney General and summoned to Washington. The Department of Interior's much-publicized Investigator Louis R. Glavis was once more in the spotlight. It was darkly hinted that revelations would be more scandalous than anything since Teapot Dome. Attorney General Cummings and Secretary Ickes conferred with the President. A Federal board was hastily announced to issue ''tenders" without which not a drop of East Texas oil could be accepted for shipment in interstate commerce. And. as the Washington marching and countermarching continued, newshawks were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Annihilation | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...doctrine of the Fantasia; and certainly I knew it would be a retrogression in myself". There is much more of this kind of explanation, and it is impossible to feel, despite "Point Counter Point", that Mr. Murry is an insincere man. One is only reminded of Harriet Martineau's statement that she was "ready to accept the universe", and of Carlyle's comment on it. Mr. Murry is still unwilling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Start of The Rainbow | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

...week was featured by presidential appointments, published and pending. President Coolidge named Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas to be Federal District Judge for the eastern half of his State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Confirmed the appointments of Seymour Lowman of Elmira, N. Y., as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and of Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas, to be a Federal District Judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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