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Thus was protraction protracted. Many another oil bigwig?including Beman Gates Dawes, brother of Vice President Dawes and board chairman of the Pure Oil Co., which was one of the original owners of the much-bickered oil bought and sold by Continental???yielded nothing illuminating on the witness stand. Col. Stewart submitted to the Senate's arrest in his hotel room, ate his meals under surveillance. Then he got a court to free "his body, wherever found," by a writ of habeas corpus. Perhaps he reflected, as did observers, that at least it was lucky he was not Beman Gates...
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