Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...punish recalcitrant witnesses-said the unanimous,* emphatic and comprehensive decision handed down by Associate Justice Van Devanter. This decision, besides authorizing the Senate to act on the case of Mally S. Daugherty, is of immediate concern to several other gentlemen: Harry F. Sinclair, who refused to answer in the oil investigations; Samuel Insull, who did not tell all he knew concerning the Frank L. Smith primary campaign fund; Thomas Cunningham, who defied Senator James A. Reed in the William S. Vare slush investigations...
...Slips. Finance Minister Alberto J. Pani, said to be the only member of the Calles Cabinet whose word is trusted by U. S. financiers, had his resignation accepted last week. For months he has been urging the inexpediency of the Cabinet's confiscatory oil and land program and its suppressive religious policy. A state financier of high ability, Big Pin Pani is also a shrewd political chameleon. He has served under more Presidents than any other Mexican adjusting, himself to the political hue of each, but retaining his reputation as an able administrator. Therefore no surprise was felt last...
...Said President-elect George David Stewart, regarding Prohibition: "Russia went dry in 1915 and then went crazy in 1917." Of death, he said: "It is the most merciful of all the most merciful provisions of nature." *He preserves interest in current affairs, including the oil market; owns control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie and Western Maryland railroads, which younger men wish...
...creeping hordes. More brutal drivers forged ahead, until they "skidded and were blocked" by masses of living and dead mice. Every front door in the lowlands of Kern County was reported to be shut fast, housewives staying within, men climbing out their windows to give battle. In the oil fields, workmen awoke to find their shacks alive with squeaking, gnawing rodents. Shoes were nibbled to shreds; socks were like lace; shirts and trousers in tatters. "One man couldn't find his clothes...
...This dispute threatens the friendly relations which should continue to exist between the two neighboring peoples. President Calles has already stated unofficially that Mexico is willing to submit certain aspects of the Mexican-American controversy over the alien land and oil laws to the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague. Such a course would be clearly in accord with the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and of the convention of The Hague. It is compatible with the nature of the difference, since at the root of the difficulty lies a clearly justiciable question--that of the infringement of the property...