Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, during the Wilson Administration, participated in by high officials of that administration and aided and abetted by still other Democrats of high standing." Senator Robinson pictured the late Franklin K. Lane, onetime (1913-20) Secretary of the Interior, as "the originator of the proposal to lease naval oil lands to private interests to be exploited by them...
Robinson: "... I think Franklin K. Lane bore a very high reputation . . . but Senators on the other side of the Chamber have not hesitated to go down into the tomb for Republicans who have passed away. . . . Democrats attempt to smear oil all over dead Republicans. But if we merely mention a man who perchance happens to be a Democrat, then something is wrong...
Robinson: "In my judgment, it was a breach of the proprieties for all those Cabinet officers to go out and accept oil employment immediately after leaving the Cabinet...
...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...