Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before a joint committee looking into the whole field of U.S. investments, appeared Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). How did he think U.S. capital could be lured abroad? The net of Oilman Holman's forthright reply was that the real job could not be done by the U.S.; it had to be done by other nations. Before U.S. investors would loosen up, he said, high taxes, foreign currency restrictions and other controls would have to be eased...
...Hollywood, an oilman quipped: "When you see a group of movie people talking on the set, you don't know whether they're discussing an oil well or a movie...
...young New England lawyer, he had gone to Colorado when gold was pouring out of the fabulous Cripple Creek district. He got his share of the West's wealth, first as a lawyer, then as a financier of railroads, then as a banker, finally as an oilman. It was a heady day, when Denver was awash with new millionaires and old champagne bottles, and Henry Blackmer was the biggest spender and entertainer of all. He earned a reputation for blowing half a million dollars a year for 13 years...
...guest columnist in the Houston Press, Oilman-Hotelman Glenn McCarthy raked up some 25 McCarthy rumors and denied them all. Insisted McCarthy: there is no feud between him and fellow Texan Jesse Jones; there is no such thing as a minimum tip at his Shamrock hotel; he is not trying to buy a newspaper, a movie studio, Catalina Island or the St. Louis Browns...
That year the bureau was officially renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the FBI men had already earned their more famous nickname. Trapped in the bedroom of his Memphis hideout, George ("Machine Gun") Kelly, kidnaper of Oklahoma Oilman Charles Urschel, cowered in a corner with his hands up, begging: "Don't shoot, G-men. Don't shoot...