Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presumably acting on orders from President Coolidge, the Department of Justice began an investigation of Sinclair's lease in the Salt Creek oilfields, adjacent to Teapot Dome. This lease, awarded on a royalty basis to Sinclair by Fall in 1922, was renewed last February by Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work, who explained to the Senate Public Lands Committee that it was "a good one for the Government...
...Sinclair, he took Fall's son-in-law, Mahlon T. Everhart, aboard his private car in the Washington railroad yards one night and handed over $198,000 in Liberty Bonds, supplementing this sum with $35,000 at his Manhattan office some days later. He was supposed to be buying a one-third interest in a run-down ranch of Fall's at Tres Rios (Three Rivers), N. Mex. They were going to turn the ranch into a country-club. But no club eventuated. Fall used the money to pay off debts and improve the property...
...Testimony. Counsel for Sinclair, led by Daniel Thew Wright, last week journeyed to El Paso, Tex., to take the aged Fall's testimony for the new trial. Atlee Pomerene, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Ohio and since 1924 one of the government's special prosecutors, was there, too, to cross-examine the witness. One of the first things Mr. Fall told was that the late J. W. Zevely, Sinclair's personal attorney and the man for whom he named his famed racehorse "Zev", conducted all the early negotiations for the Teapot lease. Then Sinclair went...
...Fall also talked about his famed lie of 1923-his letter to the Senate saying that Publisher McLean and not Oilman Doheny had "loaned" him $100,000. He named Senator Reed Smoot, onetime Senator Irvine L. Lenroot and a Harding Cabinet Member as the persons who had advised him to write the lying letter. Senators Smoot and Lenroot were quick to deny having anything to do with the letter...
...power plants must include not only hydro-electric but steam-driven generators. "We must mix the white coal [water power] with the black coal [thermic power]," declares Signor Motta, "[to] make up for the deficiency of water power in years of minimum rain fall...