Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wall Street Flurried. Potent U. S. oil magnates learned with intense annoyance that these monopolies are seriously contemplated. The U. S. financial press rather hysterically denied rumors that the French Government may be planning to freeze out U. S. and British oil-producing firms and draw all its "monopoly" supplies of petroleum from Soviet Russia. Secretary Kellogg deemed these possibilities so serious that he cabled Ambassador Herrick to report upon the situation. Two days later, however, the French Senate, while it rushed though the new taxes 232 to 12, voted to postpone application of the sugar and oil monopolies...
...taproom and the railway shop, became Secretary General of the Fascist Party. His single-track mind knew and knows only devotion to Mussolini and ruthless suppression of his enemies. Within a year he has drawn the discipline of Fascismo as tight as a drumhead. He has "governed by castor oil"?introduced into anti-Fascist throats while anti-Fascist noses were roughly tweaked by Farinacci's Selvaggi ("Savages"). He has earned the title "Right Fist of the Fascist Party." He has been denounced by Cardinal Gasparri as a "vulgar demagog." None the less, Mussolini had him made a lawyer...
...collection on exhibition includes oil paintings water colours, and pencil drawings. Professor Haffner has submitted a number of water colors, most of which are on European subjects. In addition to these there are some sketches of a more local interest which Professor Haffner made while he was in the White Mountains last winter...
...Murphy, whose work is entirely in oil, has several landscapes, and two large and very brilliant studies in still life on exhibition. Mr. Warren's work, again in water colour, consists chiefly of Maine and New Hampshire landscapes, with a few views of Continental scenery...
Died. Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness, 88, famed and discriminating philanthropist, widow of the noted financier who was one of the early partners of John D. Rockefeller in developing the Standard Oil Co., mother of the late Charles W. Harkness (Yale '83) in memory of whom she gave to Yale university a dormitory accommodating 600 students, the Harkness Memorial Quadrangle, mother of Edward Stephen Harkness ( Director N. Y. C. R. R., etc.); at Manhattan, of pneumonia...