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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly half done before he said: "There was something they [the Republicans] wanted to get away from. What was it? Oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In the Midlands | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...people are tired of hearing of these oil leases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In the Midlands | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...visited Casper, Wyo., hard by the famed Teapot Dome and Salt Creek oil reserves. In cutaway and striped trousers, he sat down for "chow" with oil-drillers in a mess hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Robinson | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...designing strangers, Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, had not reckoned on the many patriotic Dutchmen, particularly the cosmopolite Deterding. He sped over from London. When the bidding began the potency of Dutch oil, of Dutch nurture, became plain. The Letter by Gerard Terboch stood on the easel, a slight canvas in which a pretty maiden is seen writing a billet-doux. There was a fusillade of bidding. Sir Henri pounced on the foreigners, kept raising the bid "dix mille guilders" at a leap. He triumphed at $127,600. It all happened again with Jacob Ochtervelt's The Oyster Eaters. For this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Buying Dutchman | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Henri Wilhelm August Deterding is famed in Holland. The son of a Dutch sea captain, he left Holland in 1884, went to the Dutch East Indies to sell kerosene lamps and allied merchandise. In 1892 he was called to Batavia by the Royal Dutch oil interests. He is now Director-General of that gigantic enterprise. Robust, brown-eyed, white-haired, he spends most of his time in St. Helen's Court, London, centre of the financial district. The English have made him a baronet. His millions rank him with Rockefeller, Ford, the world's Croesi. He is superficially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Buying Dutchman | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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