Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oilman Henry Latham Doherty announced the President's annual birthday balls (poliomyelitis benefits) for Jan. 30. William Donner Roosevelt, 4, only one of the President's seven grandchildren not to spend Christmas at the White House, emptied his coin bank in Philadelphia and bought the first five tickets...
Awarded. Posthumously, to Flyer Wiley Post, killed last year with Will Rogers in an airplane crash in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935); the medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, civil aviation's highest honor; in Tulsa, Okla. Oilman Frank Phillips of Bartlesville, Okla., backer of many Post flights, made the presentation to Widow Mae Post...
Last week in Los Angeles a bigger & better merger brought a smarter oilman than Tom Slick triumphantly into the news. After five years of patient maneuvering, poker-faced Harry Ford Sinclair had got what he wanted in California- a major oil distributing system in that State. He got it by agreeing to share it with silver-bearded Chairman Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co., just as he got his great holding company, Consolidated Oil Corp., on shares with the Rockefellers in 1932. Oilman Sinclair's triumph was the acquisition of working control of Richfield...
...there was a report that Harry Sinclair had been elected board chairman of a West Texas Company called Rio Grande Oil, which had a branch in California. Rio Grande soon slid to the brink of receivership and Oilman Sinclair denied that he had anything to do with the company. Just ten months later, however, Harry Sinclair's new Consolidated Oil Corp. acquired control of Rio Grande with the help of Elisha Walker's Interstate Equities Corp. in a deal which has since aroused the curiosity of the Securities & Exchange Commission. Thus, at about the time Richfield was succumbing...
...Richfield shares, even paid Richfield's state gas tax when the foundering company's $85,000,000 book assets included practically no cash. Later, however, when the banking creditors' committee, bondholders' protective committee and unsecured creditors' committee were pondering a Doherty reorganization plan, Oilman Doherty looked into Richfield's books more closely, withdrew the plan and apparently washed his hands of the whole business...