Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jack-aspirations, and nominate him for President. He apparently would not uphold the Constitution and would not enforce the law. . . . We should remember that Dr. Nicholas Money Butler was the campaign collector for the not too sweet-smelling Harding Administration and that he may be following some of his oil friends into the Tammany-cratic party. Dr. Butler was not called the little butler of the rich for nothing. On the whole it would seem that Dr. Butler and Mr. Raskob are imposing personalities, but only to those who are willing to be imposed upon...
They have soared in throbbing airplanes more than 1,500 miles over Congo swamps, diamond mines, cannibals, palm oil factories, pigmies, ivory hunters, and savage, slimy, man-eating crocodiles. Also Their Majesties sailed a thousand miles down the mighty River Congo (larger than any other except the Amazon). By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world. Appalling, it is a place from which dense, choking creepers and great trees shut out the sun. In the gloom spiteful brown pigmies plant poisoned stakes and shoot poisoned arrows...
...event more cheerful than many an opening night will be the closing of The Ladder which has been holding forth so long and so unprofitably on the probabilities of reincarnation. Its now famed producer, Edgar B. Davis, oil-tycoon and philanthropist, last week issued a statement saying that he would withdraw the play since it did not seem to be a success...
...been preserved quite perfectly. Its major facts were not hard to believe, though it was no doubt a revelation to many scrupulous Ford owners that they were riding about in cars made by a reincarnationist. It was interesting to remember that another, though less famed, meteoric U. S. millionaire, Oil-tycoon Edgar B. Davis, believes in reincarnation. How instructive it would be, many persons reflected, if other tycoons could be persuaded or compelled to give out accurately and truthfully their religious theories...
Merger reports were scouted as soon as printed. But Standard Oil offices in the U. S. did not deny that problems of overproduction might be discussed at Achnacarry, might even be urged forward to solution...