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Governor Smith took his time replying to this outburst, but another fight sprang up before the week was out. In the Senate, Indiana's Robinson went off on a wide tack to show that five onetime members of President Wilson's cabinet had later entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny. It was the rankest sort of Senatorial innuendo and included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance...
...Chamber had been debating with approval certain changes and relaxations of the bill recently introduced to curb the activities in France of foreign oilmen (TIME...
...Some one said that manufacturing chemists of the U. S. had addressed President Coolidge on the subject of altering the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. For reasons other than the reasons of industrial chemists, Labor wants this law changed (TIME, Oct. 24). For yet other reasons, oilmen want this law changed. When interviewed, President Coolidge said he recalled no letters from industrial chemists about the anti-trust law, adding that he thought oilmen had the. most legitimate grounds for seeking a change. Petroleum is limited in the U. S. If U. S. oilmen are not permitted to combine and limit production...
...oilmen were not, however, cast down by any vision of a great market lost to them suddenly of in the proximate future. Chemist Audibert's process had indeed been shown commercially practicable, but only for a nation with coal in sufficient abundance to permit the diversion of millions of tons annually from furnaces to carburetors. To supply France with synthetic gasoline by the Audibert process would require three or four million tons of coal per annum, All this would have to be imported as France has not enough coal as it is. In terms of coldest economy, the logical...