Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge was annoyed, very. Through the medium of the arch-Democratic and exceedingly militant New York World he learned that all was not well with another of the Government's oil leases with ill-famed Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair & colleagues. It was a lease on the Salt Creek field in Wyoming, adjacent to memorable Teapot Dome. It was a lease made by President Harding's Secretary Albert Bacon Fall and renewed by President Coolidge's whilom Secretary Dr. Hubert Work. It was a lease which Senator Walsh of Montana, famed oil inquisitor, had suspected and asked...
...charges of Senator Walsh, bluntly told the Attorney-General that the opinion never should have been delayed in publication. The President is described as having been nettled when he learned that his own departments had been holding out on him in the matter of this aftermath of the oil scandals, and to have issued orders that action be taken instanter without regard to the election of November...
...People are tired of hearing of these oil leases."-Dr. Hubert Work, onetime (1923-28) Secretary of the Interior, now Chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...Oil Scandals, as everyone knows, began in the administration of President Harding. It looked last week as though the oldtime sins of commission had been followed, in the Coolidge era, by sins of omission...
Lease. Besides the Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming, whilom Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall leased to Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair a tract adjacent to Teapot Dome on the north, in the field known as Salt Creek. Some 42 miles north of Casper, Wyo., the Salt Creek field is bigger than Teapot Dome. Its 2,000 wells produce some 38,000 bbls. per day, about 19 times the output of the 63 wells in Teapot Dome...