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...chairman of the Kettleman Hills conservation committee, of the Santa Fe Springs conservation committee, president of the Independent Oil Operators of Southern California. Without the support of "Judge" Reiter, the Wilbur plan could admittedly get nowhere - and "Judge" Reiter, an "oil oyster" (i. e., an operator who takes the threat of government dic tation as so much salt water), was not quick to give his support. Lyons Act. Last year the California legislature passed the Lyons Act, designed to limit oil production indirectly by limiting the production of the natural gas which .forces the oil to the surface. The state...
...change as a result of the hearings. Their significance lay in the fact that they were the first hearings that the Drys had ever given the Wets in the House since Prohibition. Heretofore Wet legislation has been smothered under parliamentary silence. What caused the change this time was the threat of the Wets to set up an unofficial committee of their own in the capitol and hold mock hearings on Prohibition changes. To prevent such an undignified procedure the Drys consented to official hearings before the Judiciary Committee...
...Santelli with his sabre, his own mastery seemed to excite him. He talked -rapidly in French, Spanish, Italian, punctuating each touch with the words "et la!" Sometimes "et la!" was a celebration of his own passes, sometimes of Deladrier's or Santelli's; it was a threat, a joke, a warning, a boast, a congratulation. In his pale face, under a streak of hair, like shiny black paint, his eyes flashed; his mouth tipped up at one corner as though in sympathy with the outstretched left arm. Nedo Nadi is the son of Beppe Nadi, who coached every...
...neither to the deflation of the "menace" nor the inflation of the "bogy." Shrewdly he said: "If there were no British merger we would still wish to coördinate cable and radio. At the same time I thoroughly disagree with those who say that the threat of the British merger is fantastic." Beyond such generalities he would not speak of the British company. But he offered to submit secret information...
...silent, however, was Attorney Stanley M. Lazarus, who promptly made good his previous threat of asking for a receivership. Charging that "mismanagement and maladministration" had resulted in "serious and threatening financial difficulties," Mr. Lazarus lamented the fact that Mr. Fox holds voting control, fixed the adjective "socalled" upon the directors. To these claims Fox Attorney Samuel Untermyer declared the action was brought by "a handful of stockholders" and that the corporation was "overwhelmingly solvent...