Word: finney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dixon appointment caused job-shuffling in Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur's department. Edward Clingan Finney, chief (though passive) subordinate of Albert Bacon Fall and Hubert Work in the leasing and releasing of Teapot Dome, Elk Hills and Salt Creek oil fields, was demoted to the post of Solicitor. Ernest Odell Patterson, who as Solicitor wrote the opinions upholding the Salt Creek contracts with Oilman Sinclair, was removed...
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur promptly picked a committee of three to sift outstanding drilling permits. They were: Commissioner of the General Land Office William Spry, Director of the Geological Survey George Otis Smith, Interior Department Solicitor Edward C. Finney. They will revoke permits which have lapsed or under which specified development has not occurred...
...Oilman Sinclair was on a train returning from a visit to the Fall ranch in New Mexico. It was nine hours after the legal time was up when Oilman Sinclair sent in his bid, by telegram from Pratt, Kan. Simultaneously, Fall wired Assistant Secretary of the Interior Edward Clingan Finney not to be too formal about the bids. The belated Sinclair bid was accordingly admitted. When Fall returned to Washington he threw out twelve other bids and awarded the contract to Sinclair. It was a contract to extract oil from U. S. property on a royalty basis. In Fall...
Several witnesses, including Senator Kendrick of Wyoming, President Amos Leonidas Beaty of the Texas Oil Co. and Edward Clingan Finney, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, gave testimony showing how Fall kept the Sinclair lease secret, even from his chief lieutenant, in such a way as to bar out other bidders...
...second of the Medical School lectures on "The Care of the Patient" will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Amphitheatre of Building O, when Dr. J. M. T. Finney of Baltimore will speak. These lectures are open to students in the Medical School and Officers of Instruction in the University...