Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another week's dredging of the Oil Scandals produced proof of how Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contributions to the G. O. P. in 1923, after a Republican cabinet member had furtively enriched Sinclair with the Teapot Dome lease, were camouflaged by the G. O. P. management. The star witness was James A. Patten, fellowtownsman of Vice President Dawes (Evanston, Ill.)-plainspoken, upstanding, oldtime "wheat king" of the Chicago Board of Trade...
Five million dollars of the money extracted by John D. Rockefeller from Pennsylvania's oil-bearing substrata were last week applied to perpetuate the surface grandeur of 600 square miles of the Appalachian chain far south of Pennsylvania. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial fund announced that it had underwritten half of the $10,000,000 fund sought for the Great Smoky Mountains National park. Public subscription and the legislatures of North Carolina and Tennessee had provided most of the other $5,000,000 required to buy what will be the outstanding national park in the eastern...
...form the measure had been shorn of provisions to create a French monopoly of oil vending in France. Deputy Pioqemal, pounding his desk, demanded to know why these provisions had been knocked out. Answering his own question he cried: "I assert that the Cabinet has received and heeded an injunction from America forbidding the monopoly which the people of France have been promised over their oil imports...
Straightway the Minister of Commerce, suave attorney Maurice Bokanowski, rose to defend the bill. He did not deny that the Cabinet had received protests and intimations from Standard Oil of New Jersey, Royal Dutch Shell and Anglo-Persian Oil. Rising superior to this fact, he cried: "The State does not know the importers! The State is merely anxious to provision the Nation with oil to the best advantage...
After prolonged debate the Chamber concurred in this view, voting 335 to 185 for the bill in its new form. If passed by the Senate, it will leave the Standard, Shell and Anglo-Persian oil firms in virtual dominance of the French market, though theoretically curbed by a new licensing commission with limited powers...