Word: ricketts
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Reports which controvert all the information coming from reliable sources in Rome have been traced by this correspondent to a common source, which is none other than the enterprising and resourceful Francis W. Rickett. Coming out of Ethiopia with his concession more or less in the discard, Mr. Rickett stopped twelve days ago in Rome, where he found neither official nor unofficial sources of revenue eager to take it off his hands...
...Rickett's motive is interpreted by the less credulous as a desire to save Ethiopia, and incidentally his concession, from Italian rapine by putting new hope into the elements opposed to invasion. He had no success whatever in official [British] quarters, but he does seem to have inspired a certain amount of 'publicity...
With Britain showing the cleanest possible diplomatic hands this week, with Standard Oil the butt of slashing attacks by New Deal newspapers, and with Ethiopia's Emperor soured on the U. S., alert London financiers called conditions ripe for Promoter Rickett to obtain his vast concession afresh for British interests if Standard Oil really does not want...
...about it," snapped President Walter B. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey, arriving in Manhattan from London, where he had remained at the Ritz Hotel during the whole pother. Still 100% mum. Tycoon Teagle debarked in Manhattan last week, while London papers still rumored that he hired Mr. Rickett in the first place and ordered the promoter's fat fee paid last week regardless of future developments...
What was going to happen now to the Ethiopian concession developed this week when the leaky old French steamer Porthos limped into Suez bearing Promoter Rickett. If that Briton had been a crowned head, he could not have been received, according to local newshawks, with greater consideration by Anglo-Egyptian officials. Suez Chief of Police Frank Harvey took the promoter off in a special launch, assigned a squad of detectives to guard him as he hurried from the canal area to Egypt proper. At the barrier an Egyptian officer snapped to salute and Francis M. Rickett drove off escorted...