Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Jones, head of the National Petroleum Council, wrote President Roosevelt demanding the removal of Secretary Ickes as Administrator of the Petroleum Code. Mr. Ickes was accused of being ''incompetent, inexperienced, unqualified, temperamentally unfitted, unfair, biased . . . lacking in a proper conception of real government functions." Said the Jones letter: "He exhibits a poor and ridiculous management of the industry's affairs and plays upon public opinion by frightening the people about false issues such as an impending and imminent oil shortage, waste...
...cases now before the Supreme Court raise that issue. The Amazon Petroleum Corp. and the Panama Refining Co., both of Texas, are appealing against limitation of their oil production under the petroleum code upon the ground that they are not engaged in interstate commerce and are therefore exempt from the provisions of the Recovery Act. One Federal court upheld their contention. Another overruled them. The Supreme Court must decide...
...prompt [not necessarily soft] answer turneth away wrath" is a Grew maxim which he would like to see the lumbering State Department adopt. Last week Secretary Hull was out of Washington when the Japanese Foreign Office at length made answer to Ambassador Crew's note protesting Japan's petroleum laws. Acting Secretary of State Philips said the Japanese answer was "vague . . . incomplete . . . unsatisfactory." He hoped to get off fresh instructions to the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo soon. Meanwhile capable Joe Grew pushed on with the job which calls to a diplomat when he is not sure...
...Government owns half the stock of the South Manchuria Railway, which in turn owns 40% of something called the Manchuria Oil Co., 80% of whose stock is in Japanese hands. To this firm His Majesty the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo has been graciously pleased to grant a monopoly of petroleum sales within his realm. President of the Oil Monopoly is Mr. Keizaburo Hashimoto, brother-in-law of famed General Takashi ("Happy Sparrow") Hishikari, the Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo and Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in Manchukuo...
Last week Japanese censors in Manchukuo held up for several days but finally passed news that early next year the Oil Monopoly will: 1) banish from Manchukuo the familiar cans of Standard Oil, Texas Co., Asiatic Petroleum Co. (Anglo-Dutch Shell group), every oil can in future to bear the stamp of the Japanese-controlled monopoly; 2) permit foreign firms to sell petroleum to the Monopoly only after it has purchased the entire produce of the South Manchuria Railway's shale oil plant and the new Dairen refinery...