Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Colonel Sam Park, 79, U. S. vice consul at Biarritz, France since 1920, at a $1-a-year salary; at Biarritz. A retired Texas lumber & oilman who called loafing "the end and aim of my existence," he complained on recent visits to Manhattan that it took "the hardest kind of struggle" to reach a golf course...
Married. Pauline van der Voort Dresser Rogers, 47, relict of Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Walter Hoving, 41, her fourth husband, president of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor department store; in Manhattan...
Married. Lucy Estelle ("Dicky Dell") Doheny, 21, granddaughter & heiress of the late Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny, and Waldemann Van Cott Niven, 25, Los Angeles attorney; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...suggestion was that former Governor James A. Noe, wealthy north Louisiana oilman, had influenced the decision. He is planning to run for Governor at the next election against Earl Long, Huey's brother and the present lieutenant governor, and naturally would not like to be counted out in the primaries by the other faction of the machine. More startling was another report. The present Governor, Richard Webster Leche, has everything lined up for appointment to the Federal bench when a new judgeship is created "to clear crowded dockets." In some quarters Governor Leche was thought...
...debts of the town's five principal churches. He, President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Corp., a Methodist, had last Christmas directed the town's leading banker to investigate local church finances. Last week, while other Oklahomans were debating whether Judas hanged himself on a redbud tree, Oilman Phillips quietly sent checks totaling $63,000 to the First Methodist Church, the First Presbyterian Church, the First Baptist Church, the United Brethren Church and St. Luke's Episcopal Church...