Word: pauley
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After 10 lean years, the program is finally beginning to put on some steam. Applications for insurance climbed from 46 in 1956 to 62 last year, are on the rise now. More important, new applications are coming in for underdeveloped nations once considered too unstable. In Jordan, Oilman Ed Pauley last year got a $6,000,000 guaranty for oil exploration, and there are applications for $23 million worth of expropriation insurance pending for Iran...
After a brief talk with Texas' Favorite Son Lyndon Johnson (see below), Truman greeted 32 dyed-in-the-courthouse Trumanites whom he calls his "flying squad." Some of the high flyers: ex-National Chairmen Frank McKinney and Bill Boyle, California Oilman Ed Pauley, former White House Assistant Donald (Deepfreeze) Dawson, onetime Senate Secretary Les Biffle, ex-White House Secret Service Chief Frank Barry, Sam Rosenman, Dave Noyes, and Irish Tenor Phil Regan. Said Truman: "In five minutes I'm going down and announce for Harriman. I want you fellows to go get this job done...
...method of selection which produced the nomination of Harry S. Truman" [in 1944, when Wallace was dropped], he is talking like a narrow-minded politician. Roosevelt had far, far less part in picking Truman than did Hannegan and Flynn, two professional politicians working closely with Edwin W. Pauley, an oil man, over a period of several months...
There is no evidence for Republican Chairman Leonard Hall's statement that Roosevelt admitted in 1944 that he had made a "colossal mistake" in naming me in 1940. I agree with Hall that vice presidential candidates should not be picked in the Hannegan-Pauley way. Surely today no Republicans who dislike Nixon will organize a conspiracy like that of Flynn, Hannegan and Pauley...
JORDAN OIL LANDS will soon be opened up to U.S. oil prospectors. California Oilman Edwin Pauley has signed a 55-year agreement with the Jordan government which gives him the right to prospect one-third (12,659 sq. mi.) of the Middle Eastern nation in return for a 50-50 split on any future profits. If the deal is approved by Jordan's Parliament, Pauley will send in the first prospectors within two months...