Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected new president of the A. B. A. was dapper Frank J. ("Million-Dollar") Hogan of Washington, "lawyer's lawyer," whose defense clients in suits brought by the Government have included the late Oilman Edward L. ("Teapot Dome") Doheny and Andrew William Mellon.. President Hogan's first act was to ask for a committee to defend citizens, "poor or rich," from invasion of liberties guaranteed them by the Bill of Rights (first ten Constitutional Amendments...
Married. Lois Long ("Lipstick" and "L. L." of The New Yorker), divorced wife of Curtis Arnoux Peters (Cartoonist Peter Arno); and Donaldson B. Thorburn, Shell Oilman; in Manhasset...
...massive polymerization units at Kansas City and Borger, Texas, baffled the oil world by turning out 100 octane gas in quantity too great for any known U. S. use. All Chairman Frank Phillips will say is that "the total output is being sold abroad to a foreign government." Eventually, Oilman Phillips expects automobile engines to be adapted to use 100 octane fuel...
...Nazarene preacher named S. T. Brogdon, out to be Governor of Texas, closed his campaign for the Democratic nomination last week. So did State Attorney General William McCraw of Dallas, Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson of Amarillo, Oilman Tom F. Hunter of Wichita Falls, seasoned campaigners all. And so, to the grief of all these gentlemen, did Flour Salesman Wilbert Lee O'Daniel of Fort Worth (TIME, July 25). At Kilgore, on the night before primary day, Candidate O'Daniel struck up his hillbilly band, introduced Children Pat, Molly & Mike, who sang "Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy," declaimed...
When he steered his 70-foot schooner into Miami, Fla., last week, 46-year-old Oilman Baker had fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to make his fortune and then go for a good long sail. With the same daring and dynamic enthusiasm that characterized his younger brother, the late, great Hobart ("Hobey") Baker, who has been immortalized since his Wartime death as the greatest U. S. college hockey player of all time. Skipper Baker, accompanied by two sons and a crew of three, had just completed a 30,000-mile cruise from Hong Kong...