Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That though all could and did read newspapers, the jurors had not heard of the supreme court's condemnation of the Sinclair lease and of Secretary Fall...
...that he, as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Engineering in 1921 had made the suggestion which led Secretary of the Navy Denby to have President Harding transfer Teapot Dome to the Interior Department. It was his idea and Secretary Denby's he said, to have Fall lease the oil reserve to some company which would build tanks, and store oil for the Navy. Also, there would be royalties. Secrecy was urged because in 1921, the Navy Department had a "scare" about war with Japan...
That a more telling argument than any had been Lawyer Littleton's to the effect that a man like Sinclair, if he were going in for a conspiracy, would not have stopped at the trifling cost of $304,000; and Fall, if he were selling Teapot Dome, could easily have gotten more than a quartermillion...
...believe Sinclair was guilty of the charge. I don't believe he agreed to pay Fall anything before he got the lease. It may be that after Sinclair did get the lease, Fall got some money from him by the argument that he had favored Sinclair with the lease...
Though the Southerners reported that they had actually taken Tsinan, the facts appeared to be that its fall was merely imminent and that the casualties on both sides had been unusually heavy...