Word: ricketts
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Emperor considers that Secretary of State Cordell Hull acted with gross misjudgment in persuading the Standard Vacuum Oil Company to cancel the Rickett concession," said the Emperor's spokesman, adding that His Majesty told Mr. Engert hotly: "We need the co-operation of somebody?instead of obstacles, OBSTACLES...
...total but too simple explanation of Fat Chaps would be that Mr. Rickett is lone-wolfing, that he got the concession by making Power of Trinity and his Yankee adviser believe that Standard Oil can stop Mussolini, and having obtained the concession, will now try to sell it to the highest bidder-perhaps even to Mr. Rickett's "friend," Benito Mussolini. The Rickett Concession was granted to "the African Development & Exploration Co." This was recently set up as a Delaware corporation by a discreet Manhattan firm which makes a business of incorporating dummy concerns and keeping their secrets...
Lion's Paws. When boyish Mr. Eden appeared, there was heard in his office the plaintive cry: "If Mussolini had paid Rickett, the man couldn't have served Italy better...
Particularly if a second concession, involving Lake Tana, has been obtained, Mr. Rickett is operating in what His Majesty's Government lately told the House of Commons is officially "one of the most vital spheres of British interest." In past decades concessions obtained by British promoters from unwary potentates have repeatedly enabled British diplomats, often years afterward, to wangle, bluff and bludgeon much Empire spoil into the bag. From this point of view the Lion's left paw seemed well placed last week...
...Government cannot interfere in a concession granted to the United States! . . . I gave the concession to Standard Oil." By this time Fat Chaps had arrived in French Somaliland and realized that he had embarrassed London by announcing in Addis Ababa that some of his backers are British. Said Promoter Rickett, changing his tune, "The capital of the African Development & Exploration Co. which received the concession is 100% American...