Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have millions invested in the Philippines are also heavy contributors to the campaign chest of the Republican Party. In the name of God, Members of the American Congress, I beseech you to give us our independence before the Philippines, like the 'Teapot Dome' and the naval oil lands, are donated to campaign contributors whose mouths are watering for our golden natural resources...
...powers that be in the Republican party must be cursing their fate that the first stages of a presidential campaign year should be featured by such revelations as the Senate committee is bringing to light in regard to the oil deals that took place in 1920. There no longer seems to be any doubt that graft was rampant in more fields than this one during the Harding regime, but here particularly lies the threat to a Republican victory in November. Dishonesty that took place eight years ago is not likely to arouse much public indignation now, especially if the guilt...
...disgruntled go-between was Emmet Queen, who claims that it was he, not Beman Gates Dawes (brother of the Vice President) who brought about Mr. Dillon's recent sale of the Pure Oil Co. to the Ohio Cities Gas Co. for $23,500,000. Mr. Queen asserts that Mr. Dawes was Mr. Dillon's "dummy" in the deal, and wants $1,100,000 go-between commission for himself...
...Tall call boys on platforms, before stock price recording boards in brokerage offices abbreviate in order to keep up with racing tickers. Allied Chemical and Dye is cried: "Acid," Texas Gulf Sulphur "Tiger Lily," Bethlehem Steel "Betsy Steel," Southern Pacific "Soup," Standard Oil of New Jersey "John...
...Significance. The number of books with terse culinary titles grows fast. BREAD-OIL-STEEL-have worried bones of social contention. Now MEAT. But if Author Steele started with a social passion he soon abandoned it to fondle various phases of human distortion with apparent fascination. Readers who have long counted on his stories for sound enjoyment, will be astonished to encounter here a collection of picayune obscenities importantly treated, and a legitimate argument abused and invalidated...