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...Dawes of Pure Oil Co., President William Starling Sullivant Rogers of Texas Corp., President Earle Westwood Sinclair of Sinclair Refining Co., President Edward L. Shea of Tide Water Oil Co., President Jacob France of Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Co., President Edwin B. Reeser of Barnsdall Corp., President William G. Skelly of Skelly Oil Co. Also indicted were Keith Fanshier, petroleum editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, and Warren C. Platt, publisher of Platt's Oilgram and National Petroleum News.* To oilmen the sole surprise was that the Government had decided...
...help draft the code. And last week he saw Price-fixer Moffett go on the P. C. C. as one of the NRA's three representatives, saw Presidents Kingsbury of Sococal and Holliday of Sohio go on as representatives of the industry. Only other company committeemen were Presidents Reeser of Barnsdall, Dawes of Pure Oil and Director Beaty of Phillips. All others except Socony-Vacuum's Arnott were trade association heads. The voices of the big companies, which have long regarded as a vested right their power to set the price for the whole industry, were muted...
...credit in income tax returns for local taxes not paid. Should appeals fail, the teachers promised to picket business establishments known to be delinquent in taxes. Resentfully they rejected County Treasurer McDonough's suggestion that they call on individual delinquents to collect taxes due. Said Teacher Nell W. Reeser: "The County Treasurer apparently thinks of us as a body of super-gold-diggers, who, by some magic wand, are able to conjure money out of the well-lined but carefully guarded pockets of the rich tax dodgers. But tax collecting isn't our business. If [the officials...
...Curtis' name did not come up last week. The Institute shelved the tsar idea for the time being. Instead it accepted the resignation of Edwin B. Reeser as president and elected Amos Leonidas Beaty to succeed him. More significant, it was decided to give the Institute's president a salary and recognize the post for the real job it is. President-Elect Beaty was quick to dissociate himself from any thought of dictatorship. "I was elected just to do my best," said he, ". . . to keep the industry going smoothly down the middle of the road." Nevertheless observers guessed that, within...
...company man can be elected head of the Institute. Edwin B. Reeser, twice president, is president of independent Barnsdall Corp. The late Elmer West Clark who preceded him was executive vice president of Union Oil Co. of California. Amos Leonidas Beaty's only position now is a directorship in Phillips Petroleum Co. But he well understands the viewpoint of the big companies. He used to be president of great Texas Co. Texas is his State. His Texan stature and accent mark him in New York, where he now lives, golfs, bridges, flies. A lawyer for 15 years before serving Texas...