Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan to enforce article No. 27 of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 which declared that lands held in Mexico by foreigners were not the property of those foreigners but belonged to the Mexican State. This theory of nationalization of the land appealed to many U. S. property holders (especially oil magnates) in Mexico as a pernicious and unsound doctrine. It was denounced as confiscatory, especially since Mexican officials were planning to make their Constitution retroactive and to invalidate titles secured long before the 1917 document was written. So Ambassador Sheffield led no entirely placid existence...
...model (Dancer Carmencita), painted his nose red and ate his cigar, he had ingenuity, humor. An erect, burly, bearded man who waited days to cool off before thrashing an abusive farmer, _ he was gentle, temperate, poised, just. A portraitist who could block out, build up, polish and accent an oil masterpiece in one sitting, with never any weak "teasing up" or dishonest glossing over, he had the disciplined intensity of genius truly great...
...similar circumstances, Mr. Sinclair hurried off to Boston, imitated the Mencken tactics of selling his contraband publicly and orating on Boston Common,† and of recent weeks the book has had a sale over which even a Communist might not be able to conceal his satisfaction. The Story of Oil!, like all Mr. Sinclair's stories, has appeared at length in the newspapers. Also it has been picked up and messed with for its political content by Samuel Hopkins Adams, a third-rate novelist, author of Revelry. It is the story of the Oil scandal, the Ohio Gang...
...OiL ! - Upton Sinclair - A. & C. Boni...
...literal person, Author Sinclair read publicly The Song of Songs from the Bible. Parts of it, quoted in Oil!, had been cited as cause for suppressing Oil! Author Sinclair asked Boston police to ar rest him for uttering Holy Writ obscenities. The police sulked. He advertised that he would sell a Bible publicly as well as Oil! and succeeded in selling one to a police man by pasting an Oil! jacket on a Bible. No practical joke, this was supposed to involve the Bible in whatever legal proceedings might be brought against Oil! In a spirit more...