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...Woude of Shell Union Corp., President Alexander Eraser of Wolverine Petroleum Corp., President J. F. Drake of Gulf Oil Corp., President Henry May 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...
...height of his power the whole Irish nation swore by him, and in Gladstone's Parliament his power was so great that he was in a fair way to wrest Irish Home Rule from an unwilling England. Then the scandal of his liaison with pretty Kitty O'Shea ruined his political career, Ireland relapsed into its normal strife, and Home Rule was set back two generations. Margaret Leamy, relict of one of Charles Stewart Parnell's few henchmen who stuck by him after his disaster, has recorded her memories of those gloomily exciting days. Her book...
...raid its offices twice in 24 hours to recapture it from an anti-Parnellite force. The Catholic Church turned almost solidly against him. Shillalah-bearing hecklers turned his meetings into free-for-alls by shouting "Tim Healy's Battle Cry"-"Three Cheers for Kitty O'Shea!" Only the faithful few still followed their lost leader, but when he died, worn out by his hopeless fight, 50,000 Dubliners marched behind his coffin. After his hero's death, Edmund Leamy stayed manfully by his post, writing away for United Ireland, but his heart was no longer...
...these only when demanded by the exigencies of the theatre. This devotion to accuracy, however laudable, tends to produce a play which allows its narrative overmuch attention with a consequent vitiation of dramatic vitality. The core of the drama is inevitably the love story of Parnell and Kate O'Shea and this central theme might bear a more profound treatment than Mrs. Shauffier has accorded it. Nonetheless, the story has such merits of its own that mere dramatization suffices to make it an absorbing theatrical experience if not a play of permanent importance...
...central roles Dennis King and Edith Barrett achieve performances of truly outstanding skill. Mr. King leads a romantically vital touch to his Parnell which makes the utter devotion of Mrs. O'Shea and the Irish Party thoroughly credible. Miss Barrett has a most appealing presence and performs with a sympathetic restraint which quite overbalance her slightly Philadelphia acoant...