Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Court of Appeals denied the suit of twelve-year-old Peter Alfred Constantin Maria Salm to escape a $1,727,02..? State inheritance tax on his third of the $10,000,000 estate left by his grandfather, Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers...
...White; of heart disease, complicated by uremia; in The Bronx. He successively married and was divorced by Minna Field, niece of Chicago's late Marshall Field; Grace McMillan Jarvis, granddaughter of Michigan's late Senator James McMillan; Mrs. Beatrice Rogers Benjamin Pratt, granddaughter of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Evelyn Harris Spaulding of Haverhill, Mass. He squandered $4,000,000 of his wives' money on parties and fun, died broke and unattended by any of them or by his four children...
From one rich U. S. family to another last week passed working control of the Virginian Railway, the 600-mi. model coal road built by the late Standard Oilman Henry Huttleston Rogers in the days of Roosevelt I (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). In Manhattan, Adrian Hoffman Larkin, Virginian Board Chairman and trustee of the Rogers estate, laconically announced that 75% of the Virginian's common stock had been sold to interests identified with Andrew William Mellon. The consideration, said Mr. Larkin, was in excess of $31,000,000. Actual purchaser was a group headed by Koppers Co., Eastern...
...directly and indirectly) is almost wholly in common stock, whose voting rights will be diluted by the new preferred. ¶ Proud of a 1936 record is President Edwin B. Reeser of Barnsdall Oil Co. He discovered more new oil per share of stock (50 bbl.) than any other oilman in the U. S. In partnership with Humble Oil. Barnsdall last summer tapped a big pool in Nueces County, Tex. On the last day of 1936 Barnsdall and Standard Oil of Indiana discovered an 80,000,000 bbl. reserve in Louisiana's Lafourche Parish. This week in California Barnsdall prepared...
...Philadelphia Record reported that the name used by Oilman Henry Latham Doherty (Cities Service) when he goes to Temple University Hospital for treatment of his ailing throat is "Mr. Eggleston...