Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wrangled about the Oil Scandal (see CORRUPTION...
Last week the Senate's drilling into the Oil Scandal, having slipped momentarily from the firm, legalistic hand of Inquisitor Walsh, emitted several brief sidespouts more spectacularly stupid than significant...
...newsgatherer, one Charles T. White, who was forthwith discharged by his employers on the Republican New York Herald-Tribune. Records showed that Sinclair had never contributed to a Smith campaign fund, though in 1918 he gave $1,000 to New York County Democrats. In 1920, four years before the Oil Scandals broke, Governor Smith made Sinclair a racing commissioner with a five-year term. In the 1920 campaign Smith lost. These facts Governor Smith brought out in a blistering letter to Senator Nye, to whom and to Senator Robinson he wished "public humiliation" for reckless statements, "demagogic slander," "infamous insinuations...
Frank Phillips, president of the Phillips Petroleum Co., reported net profits of $4,937,931 (previous year: $21,407,709); pointed to general overproduction of crude oil and gasoline throughout the industry; told that Phillips Nu-Aviation gasoline has been contracted for in Government air mail service...
AMBITION - Arthur Train - Scribner's ($2.50). Simon Kent gets along in the world. Why? 1) He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and an asset to a law firm that handles shady cases for a potent oil corporation; 2) his wife knows how to mix cocktails for his employer. After four years, Simon gets tired of getting along, particularly when he finds out that his wife had duped him into marriage after having an illegitimate child by another man. Honest, basically upright Simon obtains a divorce, a wholesome job, a new and true wife. Author Train tells...