Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During speechmaking, the room was darkened and spotlights played on a life-sized oil portrait of Andrew Jackson, the hardbitten, relentless foe of Federalism. Andrew Jackson was the President who introduced the "spoils system" of patronage into national government, but that did not deter Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer for the New York Evening World, from excoriating the "Harding Gang." As historian and first speaker of the evening, Mr. Bowers had first chance to attack the Republicans; he did it so thoroughly that subsequent speakers felt free to talk mainly about themselves or other Democrats...
...Houston will never regret it. Come what may, the convention will be something for Houstonians to flaunt in their three-cornered rivalry with other Texas metropolitans?the bustling oil-&-cotton men of upland Dallas and the drawling men of San Antonio...
Amazed Italians wondered. How came this Amir of a fabled realm to be so nonchalant, so easily and intelligently apprehensive of both modernity and Eternal Rome? Is not Afghanistan the exotic and backward land of castor oil beans, asafoetida plants, and "fat-tailed sheep"?* Is it possible that a country without railways, a people whose chief exports are the wool and skins of "fat-tailed sheep" can have achieved sophistication...
Facts: The Standard Oil Co. of New York declared war on the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Interests, British controlled colossus of foreign oil production...
...Standard Oil issued a statement to the press, strange move for this close mouthed group. Saying...