Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repair man, the auto salesman, the baker's delivery man, the floor walker, the ice salesman, the tailor and the leather worker who were empaneled three weeks ago in Washington D.C. to decide the guilt or innocence of the aged New Mexico politician (Albert Bacon Fall) and the opulent oilman (Harry Ford Sinclair) in their alleged conspiracy to defraud the U. S. ( TIME, Oct. 31), had listened for over a week to legalistic intricacies. Between court Sons they were free to go to their homes, their only instructions being to avoid discussing the case and making up their minds...
They were not a crap-shooting, Jazz-singing jury, like the one that tried Mr. Fall and Oilman Edward L. Doheny two years ago. Miss Bernice Heaton, the telephone instructress, for example, would ride home from court on a trolley car and go out for the evening with a girl friend. Edward K. Kidwell, the leather worker, would go off and kill time between sessions hanging around a soft-drink stand in Four-and-a-Half Street...
...reserve worth 100 millions and the owner was society. The decision restored to the U. S. Navy the tract of 9,321 oil-bearing acres called "Teapot Dome" in Natrona County, Wyo., which onetime (1921-23) U. S. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased in 1922 to Oilman Harry F. Sinclair & associates to develop and operate on a royalty basis for gas and oil "as long as produced in paying quantities...
...item above represents the extent of the loss suffered by Oilman Sinclair & associates. Only Congress can reimburse them for their outlay on Teapot Dome, the court holding that the illegality of their lease voids their equity in tanks, pipelines, oil stores, etc., acquired under same...
...Government's other civil suit arising out of the oil scandals, against Oilman Harry F. Sinclair who leased the Teapot Dome (Wyo.) reserve, is still before the U. S. Supreme Court...