Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arts) Institute in Brooklyn after helping to found Standard Oil. Her husband was the Pratt who jotted the memorandum which revealed "Andy" Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon) as one of those who were invited by Will Hays to take over some of the Liberty Bonds which Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair gave to the Harding-Republican deficit...
With Anaconda rose another mighty copperman, John D. Ryan. Copperman Ryan had been store clerk, drummer, oilman. He did business with Marcus Daly, and when Daly died, young Ryan took over his interests. Then Rockefeller-partner Henry H. Rogers invited him to take charge of Amalgamated Copper in Montana, then in the midst of the dispute with Heinze. In 1908, Rogers died and Ryan became president of Amalgamated. In 1910, it merged with Anaconda...
Harry M. Blackmer, the fugitive from Denver and from U. S. justice for whom President Coolidge last month signed a special warrant that he might be seized in France and brought home to account for concealing from the Government his profits in Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's Continental Trading Co. five years ago (TIME, June 4), was still in France last week. He was moving in Paris "disguised"' in slouch hat and horn spectacles. He was, said newsgatherers, dodging newsgatherers, not Government officials. He did not fear extradition, they said, because he could not be extradited unless...
...news, save Oilman Teagle's tut-tutting telegram, emerged from the Achnacarry woods, presumably full of roving officials. But anonymous "authorities" were not averse to revealing the true nature of the shooting party. This was explained variously...
Last week, there came to Castle Achmacarry one Walter Clark Teagle, president of the greatest of U. S. oil companies, Standard Oil of New Jersey. He carried a gun. But his friends were not alarmed. They recalled that Oilman Teagle and Oilman Deterding, mighty rivals, were yet friends. They remembered that Oilman Teagle had tried to be peacemaker in the recent Indian oil war between Royal Dutch and Standard Oil of New York. They guessed the two chiefs would discuss ways and means of persuading Soviet Russia to compensate U. S., British and Dutch companies for confiscated oil wells...