Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...standard type of U. S. oil-boom promoters. His energy was tremendous. His big smile and loud, harshly good-natured laugh would persuade strong men to work and inspire other gamblers' confidence. But, if necessary, Harry Sinclair could drive strong men to work and outsmart the money fellows. He was, and still is, as shrewd as they come in the whole shrewd oil game. His big laugh and heavy hand are the foils of a cunning mind...
...father died, lacked the patience to keep the little business going. One day he came in from rabbit-hunting with a wound in his foot. He had shot himself. An insurance company paid him $5,000 for the loss of a toe. Something told him where to put the money; not into the drug business, but into "mud sills," the big logs men were using then in Kansas to bolster their oil derricks...
Young Sinclair's logs brought a profit. He sank the money in an Oklahoma oil pool and came out with $100,000. Soon he was a millionaire producer with properties dotted all through the midwest, from southern Kansas to northern Texas. He would spot a place, buy or lease it, develop it, sell out and look for another place. He kept control of richest wells...
...wide reach of Sinclair Consolidated was flung out by the burly Destiny Man to Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; to Angola, in Portuguese West Africa; to Russia. Sinclair's technique was to approach the government of a country with the flyleaf of his checkbook showing. "Men mumble but money talks," is an old oil adage. He would ask for a franchise to prospect for petroleum. If he found some, the government could have it all, except for a million or so acres. Sinclair always got his acres along the coast, where his tank-ships could put in. The oilfields...
Superficially the repaying of the sum to Sinclair could do no lasting good. The money actually was not rightfully his in the first place. Then such a repayment would not effectively wash the stain from the Republican robe of state. Now, with the suggestion that Mr. Borah donate the sum already gathered to the needy miners of Pennsylvania, the original purpose of the scheme has come to naught. The secondary result which the "Nation" hints at still remains nevertheless. Mr. Borah, though the possibility of his ever attaining to the Presidency through such a stroke is most improbable...