Word: oilmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the Rickett concession suddenly flared in the U. S. headlines, oilmen of the firms that make the name of Rockefeller great had promptly said that of course they hired a British promoter to get oil rights from Ethiopia, that of course they set up a Delaware corporation to handle the details, and that of course they would do whatever President Roosevelt liked, things would have been much easier for them last week...
...Roberts' had the endorsement of the Oklahoma Military Academy and they were as great sticklers for strict ballroom decorum as "Madame" Vizay. George Roberts, at 19 in Okmulgee, Okla., learned to dance by attending the class which smart Esther Taubee ran for Okmulgee's newly rich oilmen. Soon George Roberts married his teacher, who was about his own age. After the War they opened a school in Okmulgee, a bigger one in Tulsa...
...course of his attack on the Constitutionality of the Recovery Act, an attorney for two Texas oil companies had mentioned to the Supreme Court the case of four oilmen jailed for violating a supposed provision of the Petroleum Code. A trial court ruled the provision unconstitutional. The Department of Justice prepared to appeal the decision only to discover that the provision was no part of the land's law. By some oversight it had been left out of the revised copy signed by President Roosevelt though included in printed copies circulated by the Petroleum Administration (TIME...
...amount of business they expect to do for several years in advance. Once an estimate has been accepted by the Government, all petroleum called for therein must be imported "irrespective of business conditions." Thus a huge oil reserve for the Japanese Navy must be piled up and maintained by oilmen of prospective enemy countries at their own expense-unless they prefer to quit doing business in Japan...
...East Texas Field is a perfect network of secret pipe lines, bypasses and other ingenious devices of knavery. Everybody knows it. Administrator Ickes has declared that if oilmen would furnish the evidence they have in their hands he could cut off every drop of hot oil in 48 hours. Oilmen swear they have turned in enough evidence to convict half the population of Texas but nothing is done...