Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to one cat, Minnie, on the payrolls of the Standard Oil Company (TIME, April 12), I recently met on the island of Rhodes a bewhiskered and short-legged canine named Bippo who is not only the publicly-recognized assistant guardian of the local museum, but actually receives a pension from his government for 13 years of loyal ratsmanship...
...striking thing about this departing Court is that although in the first three years of the New Deal it invalidated law after law-NRA, AAA, hot oil, Guffey Coal-and upheld only one of importance - devaluation and the cancelation of the gold clause - it has not since last October overruled the New Deal on a single major case. Instead, it upheld in the past year: the arms embargo in the Chaco War, the new Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act, the Railway Labor Act, the Wagner Labor Law, the Social Security Law. Yet it was not until this winter that...
...George Arnold Hearn, who subsequently added another $100,000 in memory of his son Arthur Hoppock, to change all this. In the past ten years 85 paintings by living U. S. artists have been bought by the Metropolitan. Last week a significant addition to this catalog was announced: an oil by William Gropper, oldtime cartoonist on the radical New Masses and Daily Worker, who began to show his paintings two years...
...Even John L. McKinney, 94, one of the first oil pioneers of Titusville and a founder of American Radiator Co., died last week two days before Rockefeller...
...Evansville, Ind., Mrs. John Benham suspected that her dog Jerry had eaten up two $5 bills. By feeding Jerry liberal amounts of castor oil she retrieved the bills in fragments, patched them together, forwarded them to the U. S. Treasury at Washington for redemption...