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Round 19. Another able lawyer is Frank J. Hogan of Washington, D. C. He could write an authentic, an exhaustive, history of the Oil Scandals-from the point of view of Edward L. Doheny,* Albert Bacon Fall, Harry Ford Sinclair, Col. Stewart...
...lawyer for Col. Stewart, Mr. Hogan replied to Mr. Aldrich's announcement of Rockefeller proxies with a sophistry. Said he: "If, therefore, Mr. Rockefeller's associates should succeed, it will mean that numerical strength in shares will thwart the wishes of the overwhelming majority of stockholders...
...true that Col. Stewart claimed the support of a majority of Standard Oil of Indiana stockholders. But it is also true that the application of Mr. Hogan's reasoning would cause all U. S. business to totter, to go into a panic. It would mean that, in any corporation, the holder of one share would be as powerful as the holder of 10,000 shares...
Meanwhile, Frank J. Hogan, smart lawyer for Colonel Stewart, pointed out that the oil man had been tried and acquitted of charges of contempt and perjury growing out of his testimony before the Senate committee. Lawyer Hogan made public a statement signed by the twelve jurors of the perjury trial, saying: "It was our intention that our verdict should stand as a vindication of Colonel Stewart...
Acquitted, last spring, of contempt, Col. Stewart went on trial for perjury last month. Last week, again, he was acquitted, or at least "aquibbled." Conducted by "million-dollar" counsel (small, snappy, whitehaired Lawyer Frank J. Hogan), the Stewart defense succeeded in shifting the crux of the case from the honesty of Col. Stewart's double interpretation of the verb, "to receive," to the legality of the Senators' second questioning of Col. Stewart. Chairman of the Public Lands Committee at the time of the second Stewart hearing was boyish, officious, inexperienced Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota...