Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these three, the last and least, Indiana's Robinson, has participated most obscurely in governing the U. S., until last fortnight. Then, thinking he saw a chance to drag the Democratic Party into the Oil Scandal, he stood up in the Senate and falsely imputed a relation with Oilman Sinclair to Governor Smith of New York. "Birds of a feather!" he jibed. Democrats soon stuffed Indiana's own jailbirds and Klan feathers down Senator Robinson's throat (TIME, April...
...week he tried again, this time remarking, with carefully prepared smirks and innuendos, that members of the Wilson Cabinet had entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny after leaving office; that Senator Walsh had praised Oilman Doheny when the latter gave advice on the legislation that made the Oil Scandal possible...
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, spokesman of the Federal oil investigation, will speak under the auspices of the Democratic Club in Symphony Hall, Boston, on the evening of April 12. It was formerly announced that Senator Walsh would appear in the Union, but due to the increased size of the meeting it was though advisable to meet in Symphony Hall...
Aside from so much fury and fulmination, the week's actual Oil Scandal progress amounted...
...England is a backward, decadent section. Its factories are out-of-date; its inhabitants are idlers; its ideas have not yet emerged from the sperm-oil days. These words (or words less polite) have been spoken and applauded many times at booster meetings of towns to the West and to the South. When the Chicago Tribune castigates "the effete East," it usually refers to New England...