Word: kelleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover read with satisfaction a report of his Attorney General clearing his Secretary of the Interior of charges of maladministering public shale oil lands in Colorado. The Attorney General could find "no merit or substance" to the accusations made by Ralph S. Kelley, resigned field chief of the general land office at Denver, in a series of 14 long, legalistic articles in the New York World (TIME, Oct. 13). Declared Field Chief Kelley: "A ridiculous whitewash!" Generally anticipated was a Senate investigation of the Kelley charges this winter...
...approved Dr. Wilbur's application for another year's leave of absence. The Secretary was described as "particularly loth" to resign from the Cabinet until the disposition of charges against him and his department's administration of Colorado shale oil lands by Field Chief Ralph S. Kelley (TIME, Oct.13...
...Kelley's Story. When Mr. Kelley sold his story to the World, Secretary Wilbur indignantly exclaimed: "Kelley evidently fell into designing hands of those who would use him to their advantage. He is being exploited." Mr. Kelley and the World agreed that the latter had taken the story only after "considerable persuasion...
...Kelley's charges, as revealed by his World articles, was that the Department of the Interior, under heavy political pressure, had backed down on its interpretation of the mining laws so far as to validate worthless land claims of oil companies in Colorado. Under the old law a locator could secure full title to a 160-acre tract from the U. S. by paying $2.50 per acre, spending $100 per year on "development," proving substantially that he had discovered oil (or mineral) on his land. In 1920 Congress passed an act which substituted leasing for sale of public oil land...
...Denver office, Chief Kelley strenuously opposed Dr. Work's decision and policy. He wanted the U. S. to hold its land, he insisted that the oil companies' claims were "pure paper." He quarreled with oil lawyers and when last summer he was transferred to Washington, he suspected the oil companies of having made good their boast that they would have him ousted...