Word: domes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater interest to society than the outcome of the criminal suits still pending. The necklace in the case was an oil reserve worth 100 millions and the owner was society. The decision restored to the U. S. Navy the tract of 9,321 oil-bearing acres called "Teapot Dome" in Natrona County, Wyo., which onetime (1921-23) U. S. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased in 1922 to Oilman Harry F. Sinclair & associates to develop and operate on a royalty basis for gas and oil "as long as produced in paying quantities...
...TEAPOT DOME (Sinclair...
...item above represents the extent of the loss suffered by Oilman Sinclair & associates. Only Congress can reimburse them for their outlay on Teapot Dome, the court holding that the illegality of their lease voids their equity in tanks, pipelines, oil stores, etc., acquired under same...
Sinclair Oil v. the U. S. (the last civil suit of the oil scandals, about the validity of the Teapot Dome lease...
...Government's other civil suit arising out of the oil scandals, against Oilman Harry F. Sinclair who leased the Teapot Dome (Wyo.) reserve, is still before the U. S. Supreme Court...