Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Walsh has a brain, too; a patient, unbending, inexorable instrument in which he takes a chill delight when he brings it to bear on an Oil Scandal or a Power Probe. Unbending, unemotional, he has been called unique: "an Irishman without a sense of humor." Not until the past few years has he shown ambition nor, until very recently, even sufficient self-consciousness to trim up his Montaneering mustache of iron grey...
There are a number of reasons why this greying ramrod of a public servant has waked up, a popular one being that his prosecution of the oil gangsters excited the admiration of potent political patronesses, such as Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, president of the Women's National Democratic Club, who in turn have taught Senator Walsh to appreciate himself. Another theory is that, after his wife died in 1917 towards the end of his first term in the Senate, he turned to politics with fresh concentration as other bereaved men will turn to business, pleasure or a new wife...
...nervous, thin little man from Sullivan, Ind., who steadied his chin on his tall, starched collar and rabbited at his lower lip until it bled, was star witness of the week before the Senate Public Lands Committee, continuing its dredging of the Oil Scandals. He was Will H. Hays, who managed the Harding Campaign as G. O. P. chairman, then landed in the Cabinet as Postmaster General, then became "tsar" of the cinema industry, which lofty office he still fills...
...Committee wanted to ask Mr. Hays more about Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contributions to the G. O. P. made in 1923 a few months after Mr. Hays' fellow Cabinet member, Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall, had bestowed on Sinclair the crooked Teapot Dome oil lease...
...Hays had gone over the same ground with the Committee four years ago, when the Oil Scandals first gushed. At that time, Senator Walsh had said: "Do you know how much he [Sinclair] did give...