Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same old Teapot Dome hung upon legal pothooks. The same old stories were expected from the defense: how, in 1921, the Navy Department wanted oil storage tanks in case of War; how, in 1922, Oilman Sinclair took the Teapot Dome lease for "patriotic" as well as private reasons; how he invested in Liberty Bonds for like reasons, and gave wads of these bonds to Albert Bacon Fall, the Secretary of the Interior who leased him Teapot Dome, not as a gift but to buy an interest in Fall's ranch in New Mexico. There was the same Fall...
There is much to be said for this method of carrying on the affairs of state. While Republicans worry over oil bonds and Democrats try to acquire an issue worth supporting, the leaders of their smaller rivals can have all the fun and none of the troubles. Campaign funds are too small to cause any fear of scandal, speeches can be made just as effectively no matter who the listeners, and there is always the hope that one of them may be a modern David and down the Goliaths...
...industries of man-copper. He discovered the rich Baltic coppermine in the Lake Superior copper-district, and he managed the Hecla mine. The son, however, when he reached manhood, at first would have nothing to do with copper. He preferred to deal with another subsoil wealth-the oil that John D. Rockefeller and his partners were selling. In that way he met the late Marcus Daly, western mine-promoter and Montana banker. John D. Ryan in 1901 (when he was 37) helped to organize the Daly Bank and Trust Co. at Butte, Montana, and later became its president...
Although the prime purpose of coming to Boston was to trace through the whole story of the oil scandals, Senator Walsh was brought around to the prohibition question in the course of the interview. "While the law has been notoriously violated in a good many sections of the country and ineffectively enforced," he remarked, "I am still convinced that it has been of inestimable value. Moreover," the foremost dry advocate in the Democratic ranks stated, "It may be of interest to you to know that there is no appreciable sentiment in Congress that promises any recession whatever from the policy...
...Show Down. Two toughened adventurers annoyed and battled with each other all over the world until at last they clamped together in the heat and sog of the tropics. The cause of the final brawl is Evelyn Brent. In a sodden camp on a Latin American oil field, four men gaze hotly at her. One is George Bancroft, alternately brute & gentleman, star of this affair. He hulks, and moralizes, fights, and suffers to no profit...