Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem in contempt which the Senate left behind was settled last week by a jury of eight men, four women. Col. Robert Wright Stewart, chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, was acquitted of contempt charges arising from his refusal to answer questions put to him by the Senate Committee on Public Lands...
...charge of perjury against Mr. Stewart is now being considered by the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia. Also, he faces the demand of John D. Rockefeller Jr. that he resign as chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...
Casting about for likely members of the M Club of Cornell University, Walter Clark Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, hit upon the name of his rich classmate, Hayward Kendall, Cleveland coalman, and wrote him a letter. It is easy to become a member of the M Club-simply agree to contribute $1,000 annually to Cornell University. But Classmate Kendall did not want to join; and he said so in a wide open letter to President Livingston Farrand of Cornell. The letter in part...
Fools for Luck. Well, if it isn't W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin, again. Goodness me, how those boys are turning out the cinemae. This time, Mr. Fields is an oil stock salesman from the big city. He dupes the folk of Huntersville, including its richest inhabitant (Mr. Conklin). But Nature, happily, brings oil to Mr. Fields' long dry wells. Slapstick, rather sour...
Henry H. Rogers, Jr., grandson of John D. Rockefeller's old partner in Standard Oil, son of the yachting Colonel, brother of beautiful, sensational Millicent, onetime Countess Salm and now Mrs. Arturo Ramos, does not object to dirty fingernails. In the Cleveland laboratory of Engineer E. M. Fraser, helping perfect an electric drive for automobiles, young Rogers, Oxford graduate, declared: "I would rather cast a generator part than anything else I can think...