Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also served Andrew W. Mellon, oil man, aluminum man, steel man, Secretary of the Treasury under three Presidents for eleven years...
...became state auditor general, subsequently state treasurer. He had got into an oil business, which prospered. He went broke in the depression and had to settle some $428,000 in debts at 12½?; to 15? on the dollar-an unhappy episode which political opponents dig up regularly at election time...
...party had use for an old soldier, even if the Army did not. Joe Grundy and Joe Pew-who had thrown himself and his Sun Oil Co. wealth into the party largely on account of his hatred of Roosevelt-wanted him for governor. Ed Martin was a natural for the job in wartime Pennsylvania, organizing for civilian defense, for war production. Even John Lewis' miners, despite their leaders. voted for General Ed. He won in a walk -57 out of 67 counties...
Irresistible Vocation. Father Matthews' parents were school superintendents on Britain's tropical, oil-rich island of Trinidad. As a boy, young Basil often climbed the hill, eleven miles from Port of Spain, to visit the monastery of Mount St. Benedict, first West Indian outpost of the Benedictine order. Irresistibly drawn to "the splendor of the liturgical life" he found there, at 14 he was discussing his vocation with the prior...
...lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her month is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Proverbs...