Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
They were simple folk, the jurors, but all of them were able and accustomed to read newspapers. Justice Bailey saw to it this time that they were no collection of citizens so dormant that they had no knowledge of the Oil Scandals. He excused only those talesmen who said they had formed a firm opinion as to Sinclair's guilt or innocence. The twelve that were sworn were three grocers, a steamfitter, a repair man, an auto salesman, two clerks, a merchant, an expressman, a broker, a railroad agent-all men. Though few of them knew it, all these...
...weeks ago, Will H. Hays rode down New York Harbor in a steamer. He was bound on cinema business to Europe but thought best to make it clear that he was not running away from the Senate's investigation of the G. O. P.'s receipts of Oil money (TIME, March 12). Last week, James M. Cox, who was beaten for President in 1920 by the Hays-managed, Oil-financed Harding campaign, rode down New York Harbor on a cutter, to meet Mrs. Cox, who was returning from Europe. Ship-news reporters asked Mr. Cox about Mr. Hays...
Rival Venezuelans, having submitted to Gomez for 20 years, now seem to want a change. Their decision to submit or to revolt is important to U. S. business because Venezuela has become in recent years the second largest oil producing country in the world-the U. S. being first...
...Chaser Mr. Langdon is a wife-pecked husband, who is made to do the cooking and housecleaning. Morose, he drinks "poison" which turns out to be castor oil. To some, that is simply darling...