Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inquisitor Nye announced that his secretary, who was secretary to the late Senator Edwin F. Ladd of North Dakota, Senator Nye's predecessor as chairman of the investigating committee, had told him how, when the Oil Scandal had just broken four years ago, Will H. Hays asked Senator Ladd to meet him at the White House and then, during a taxi ride, tried to persuade him to "call off" the inquiry. Senator Ladd refused...
With the new Sinclair trial impending, the Oil Scandal progressed on other fronts...
...propounded a question of legal ethics, suggesting that plump, dapper, white-haired Lawyer Martin W. Littleton might well resign as Sinclair's lawyer. At Sinclair's last trial, Lawyer Littleton said that Sinclair was in no wise connected with the Continental Trading Co., a mysterious, short-lived oil-trading company out of whose profits, transformed into Liberty Bonds, the G. O. P. is now known to have received $160,000 from Sinclair for its Harding campaign deficit. Unless Lawyer Littleton lied to the jury, which Inquisitor Walsh felt was unthinkable, Sinclair must have lied to his lawyer...
...document before him comprised new regulations altering the effect of those Mexican oil laws which the U. S. has branded as "retroactive and confiscatory" (TIME...
...regulations, last week, except for the fact that the U. S. now has in Mexico City a new and abler-than-usual Ambassador, Dwight Whitney Morrow, onetime Morgan partner. By large business methods and with a Morgan-sized grasp of essentials, Mr. Morrow has, in four months, cut the oil snarl which has embittered the U. S. and Mexico for a full decade...