Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After several similar incidents my uncle fired Trotsky. Some time later when Trotsky had risen from pants pressing to dictatorship, my uncle recognized him, both by the name and by his pictures. The story may be verified by Mr. Brotsky, who is now in the oil business in New York. Although we are now disappointed that my uncle had to fire Trotsky, we were glad to see that in his picture on the cover of TIME he looked as though he would make a good tailor...
...rose and filed out in their customary dignity without either the attorneys or the courtroom audience realizing that they had witnessed the reception by the Supreme Court of an historic document: Franklin Roosevelt's message to Congress recommending a reorganization of the judicial branch of the Government-an oil-smooth state paper that packed terrific political punch...
...deferred judgment. Friends of Violinist Culbertson were not surprised at his nervousness. Sasha has always been as retiring as his bridge- playing brother, Ely Culbertson, is bold. Though both Culbertsons were born in Eastern Europe, they are Sons of the American Revolution. Their father was a mining engineer from Oil City, Pa. who liked to boast of his Scotch Covenanter descent. In 1880 he went to Russia to develop the rich oil fields at Grozny. There he met and married Xenia Rogoznaia, daughter of a Cossack general...
During the War, Sasha volunteered as an entertainer for the U. S. Army. Doughboys hissed when young Culbertson, listed as a violinist from Oil City, Pa., came on with his long hair and his faulty English. Ely wanted to be an interpreter. This Son of the American Revolution passed examinations in seven languages but flunked English. When the Russian Revolution came the Culbertsons lost their estate. Father Culbertson returned to the U. S. broke. Sasha began his concert tours. Between 1921 and 1926 he made over $120,000 Some of this money he sent to his brother in Paris...
...While "the world almost stood still," Tsar Alexander and with him all hope of reform, was murdered in Russia. In Buffalo, N.Y. Mr. Rockefeller added another refinery to his booming little Standard Oil...