Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henri's second wife was a White Russian, Lydia Pavlovna Koudoyarov. No sooner had they been married than Oilman Deterding assumed the role of Fairy Godfather to destitute White Russians all over the world, glad-handed them thousands from his ample purse. Pleased Nazis, attributing Sir Henri's latest outburst of munificence to "petticoat philanthropy," felt grateful last week that the new Lady Deterding is not Chinese or French...
...Nanking to say that, so far as he knew, the persons principally concerned (Dictator Chiang, Mme Chiang, Brother Soong, Adviser Donald and the Young Marshal) got out of Sian only by a ruse in which they tricked General Yang Fu-cheng, whose troops had high-jacked the kidnapping. Oilman Fitch confirmed that the city of Weinan, which had absolutely nothing to do with the case, had been wiped out and said he thought 400 Chinese in Sian, also bystanders, had been "exe-cuted in and around Sian during the purge which followed the coup." A further and persistent report...
...establish this contention in California was another matter. Moreover, the embattled wives by this time were being flanked by an outsider. It looked as if the entire kitty might be snatched by one of Ochsner's old partners, Frank C. ("Pat") Daugherty, a big, breezy Pasadena oilman who had been properly done in by the vague geologist...
Another category of litigation dated rom the Federal oil land leasing law of 1920, which washed out old claims. As soon as that went into effect Oilman Pat Daugherty, who learned about leasing in Texas, hopped into his big old Cadillac, turned up the road to Kettleman, staked out nearly four square miles identical with Ochsner's old claims. He offered to ile them in Ochsner's name in return for a 10% interest, which was legitimate practice, Daugherty knowing land office ropes which Ochsner did not. Indeed, Ochsner tried to file his own claims-after looking...
Standard Oil of California nevertheless remained in the running until May 1935. when Oilman Sinclair cagily deprived Standard of its big incentive for buying Richfield by buying out Richfield's Eastern subsidiary. Richfield Oil Co. of New York. There followed a period in which the Doherty-Sinclair understanding awaited better days in the oil business and Richfield's able Receiver William Chester McDuffie continued to cut down annual losses in the face of excessive depreciation and depletion charges. Last spring, when Richfield was coming back to black ink for the first time since 1930, Harry Sinclair and Harry...