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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...
HOLLYWOOD'S Eagle Lion Studios, Inc., which has been ailing for years, will be the first movie studio to convert entirely to TV. A West Coast syndicate (among the directors: Oilman Edwin Pauley and Broker Daniel F. Reeves, president of the Los Angeles Rams football team) bought Eagle Lion for $1,100,000, will change the name to First National Studios...
...governor, Tobey uncovered a scandal (the widespread practice of corporal punishment) in a New Hampshire asylum for delinquent girls and deposed the institution's board chairman. In 1933 he went to Congress, moved up to the Senate in 1939. When Senator Tobey blocked the appointment of Oilman Edwin Pauley as Under Secretary of the Navy, Harry Truman wrote him an angry letter, scrawled "Come and see me" across the bottom. "Who does he think he is?" sputtered Tobey. "Mae West...
...Among Lattimore's governmental assignments: President Franklin Roosevelt's personal emissary to Chiang Kai-shek (1941-42), head of the OWI Pacific operations (1942-44), traveler with Vice President Henry Wallace in Soviet Siberia and China (1944), co-writer of the Pauley Mission Report on Japan (1946), participant in State's conference on China policy...
...TIME erred in using the word "defendant." Chief Counsel Oliphant's testimony before the congressional investigating committee was: "Mr. Pauley now has before the bureau a case involving...