Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salvage work on the S-4 was continued by 18 expert divers under Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby. Seventeen shapes, sodden with oil and sea water, were retrieved, including the corpse of Lieut. Commander Jones. Twenty more "diving days" were needed to raise the hulk...
Hoover men, fearful already lest they get their man too far in front too soon, mostly dissembled the joy that Senator Edge had given them. But dissembling was hard, because: Senator Edge's first cousin is President Walter Clark Teagle of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; oil companies have offices near Wall Street; if Wall Street takes to Hoover, so can politicians...
...Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...
...until the rise of Señor Calles. His bold, perhaps rash, leadership spurred the Mexican Congress to enforce the Constitution of 1917 for the first time (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926), by passing laws which foreign interests in Mexico found "retroactively confiscatory" of their titles to Mexican lands and oil. Equally bold to the point of rashness has been Señor Calles' enforcement of the anti-religious clauses of the Constitution (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, et seq.). Indeed, for the past two years foreign investors and Roman Catholics in Mexico have almost continuously shrieked their wrongs...
...Adopted a legal rider submitted by Señor Calles which amends the land and oil laws so that they are no longer "retroactively confiscatory." Specifically, land and oil rights obtained by U. S. citizens in Mexico prior to May 1, 1917, are to be "confirmed without limitation of time," whereas 50 years had been the limit after which such rights would revert to the State...