Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bonos mores" was committed, two and a half years after the first indictments were made, two old men went on criminal trial in the District of Columbia Supreme Court last week. They are charged with a conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve in California. Everyone has seen their names and their pictures; they both have drooping, pale grey mustaches; they both look as harmless and as worn-out as 70-year-old, double-entry bookkeepers. Their romance has had its fling; their future remains an inglorious struggle...
Three months after the inauguration, President Harding transferred the Navy oil reserves from the Navy Department back to the Department of the Interior.† Then, as later Senate investigations revealed, Secretary Fall received a mysterious "loan" of $100,000 on Nov. 3, 1921, from Edward L. Doheny, potent head of the Mexican Petroleum Co. The money was delivered to Secretary Fall in cash in a satchel by Mr. Doheny's son. With it Secretary Fall purchased the finest ranch in New Mexico. On Dec. 11, 1922, Mr. Doheny's company leased the Elk Hills oil reserve from...
...vast number of cases springing from the famous Oil Scandal is an excellent example of the great extent of corruption in the government. A trial like this illuminates the kind of corruption existing in the government during the last few years. It is an astounding spectacle to see the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Interior called on the stand for serious crime. Some of the foremost oil-magnates have also been called...
...first cases springing directly from the Oil Scandal was tried in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision stated that the leases of the Teapot Dome lands should be cancelled due to fraud. Not one of the people incriminated in the trial have taken the stand to defend themselves. They have evidently decided that whatever they say might incriminate them. Doheny stated that all the charges made against him were false. He awaited only the opportunity to clear himself. When the time came, he never made the least attempt to appear before the court. This is no plea...
...Oil and the Administration of Justice" will be the topic of Assistant Professor J. M. Landis of the Law School, luncheon speaker at the Liberal Club at 1.30 o'clock today. The meeting is open to all members of the University...