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...Richard C. Callen, U. S. Marshal in Denver, Colo., went, a special warrant signed by President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg for the arrest and extradition from France of Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive from justice. Mr. Blackmer was a partner of Oilman Harry F. Sinclair in the Continental Trading Co., of Teapot Dome ill-fame. After banking his $736,000 share of profits, he fled the country when the Continental Trading Co. was investigated by the U. S. He refused to return to testify. Tax liens and penalties of $8,498,935.78 were piled up against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Iron Country | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...that company's most conspicuous figure, Harry Ford Sinclair. Last week, Secretary Mellon notified the Senate, in response to a query, that, as a result of Senate investigations, Harry Ford Sinclair and his three friends-Col. Robert W. Stewart of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, Harry M. Blackmer (fugitive from justice) and James E. O'Neil (fugitive from justice), all of whom participated in the Continental Trading Co.'s big deal-would be made to pay penalties for evasion of taxes on Continental profits. It was "not compatible with public interest" to say how much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Oil Aftermath | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...wordfest, said that Mr. Sinclair had also contributed to the campaign fund of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, in 1920. In that campaign, Governor Smith met his only popular defeat at the hands of Nathan L. Miller, who was later an attorney for Sinclair-partner Harry M. Blackmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Fashions In Silence | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...resignation of Myron K. Blackmer as Vice President of the Midwest Refining Co. Henry H. Blackmer, his father and Midwest's onetime Board chairman, is a fugitive from justice and the possessor of $763,000 profits of the Continental Trading Co.-money which apparently belongs to the Midwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Politic Oil | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Harry M. Blackmer, board chairman of the Midwest Refining Co. (subsidiary of Standard of Indiana). Mr. Blackmer skipped the country, too, and has repeatedly refused to return and testify. His share of the Continental profits were located last week in a Manhattan safety deposit box. His son, Myron K. Blackmer, testified that Harry M. Blackmer will not soon return to the U. S. from Paris. "He told me he liked it there," said Son Blackmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: CORRUPTION | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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