Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief differences between this trial and Oilman Sinclair's last one were: 1) that Fall was not a codefendant, owing to illness; 2) that Son-in-law Everhart was now obliged to talk, a Federal law having been changed for his benefit; and 3) that the jury was locked up, as the result of Oilman Sinclair having had his last jury, which was left at large, followed about by private detectives...
...Then, if the loan fund should be exhausted, the Board would fall back on the Equalization Fee, a levy collected proportionately from all the growers of a surplus crop. The fairness of this scheme has never been questioned, since when a surplus crop occurs, all who have grown the crop have contributed to the surplus and helped drive the price down. The difficulties foreseen are in determining when a surplus exists and in deciding what is a "fair price...
...Navy Department wanted oil storage tanks in case of War; how, in 1922, Oilman Sinclair took the Teapot Dome lease for "patriotic" as well as private reasons; how he invested in Liberty Bonds for like reasons, and gave wads of these bonds to Albert Bacon Fall, the Secretary of the Interior who leased him Teapot Dome, not as a gift but to buy an interest in Fall's ranch in New Mexico. There was the same Fall son-in-law, Rancher Mahlon T. Everhart, to testify how this ranch transaction was made...
Evidence. Lawyer Owen J. Roberts (prosecution) showed that Fall visited Manhattan for two days in February, 1922, just prior to receiving Sinclair's bid for the lease. Sinclair was in Manhattan. Oddly, Sinclair's bid met the Interior Department's specifications for the lease almost exactly. Did Fall write Sinclair...
...entirely satisfactory and it is probable that they will be abandoned next year. In their place the work of the advisers in holding office hours during the first week of the term will be considerably extended, and a plan for continuing certain hours in the Freshman dormitories during the fall and before mid-years is also being projected, according to Sweezy...