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...stockbroker was Harold Rickett, the English Cantabs' amateur coach, who promptly got his men settled in Kirkland, Eliot, and Lowell. Later, Rickett decided his men would be less likely to have their sleep interrupted if they were not so spread out and everybody was shifted to Kirkland...
...TIME, going on 21, may not have known Toad as long as Reader Rickett, but considers that his soft verdict on that essentially incorrigible character does more credit to his heart than to his head...
Scoop covers much of the ground covered in Waugh's account of his experiences as a war correspondent, Waugh in Abyssinia. But it has one major difference. In Waugh in Abyssinia he described how he lived for some time with a mysterious Mr. Rickett. Rickett, hinting that he had important news to disclose, was so vague that Waugh, not interested, missed the best news story of the war: when Rickett got Ethiopia's oil and mineral rights from Haile Selassie. In Scoop, poor blundering William Boot is far more fortunate. He falls in love with a German girl...
...Mexican Government, few days later, denied that President Cárdenas had actually made an oil deal with Messrs. Rickett & Smith as yet. Since they had already rushed by plane to Wall Street, it seemed probable they were contacting prospects, preparing to fly back to Mexico City for the signing of contracts later, if possible. The big question: Was this "hot oil"-that is, are the U. S. and Britain going to agree or disagree with the proclamation by which President Cárdenas laid down three weeks ago that it was right and legal for Mexican oil workers...
...Manhattan, latest reports were that 25,000,000 barrels of Mexican oil are what friends of Rickett & Smith want to buy, below the world price of oil. And from this purchase the Mexican Government would get some of the quick cash it needs to keep going, make first compensation payments, and thus have a chance of getting the U. S. Treasury to resume the silver purchases from Mexico, canceled after the oil expropriation (TIME, April...