Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hills, Teapot Dome and Salt Creek are names written imperishably in oil. Attorney General Sargent was last week obliged to add Cat Creek to the list. Cat Creek is a U. S. oil field in Montana. In 1922, Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior, gave the Lewistown Oil and Refining Co. a contract to buy the Government's Cat Creek royalty oil. As in the case of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contract for Salt Creek, Wyo., oil,* Fall gave the Lewistown people an option to renew their contract after five years, although no such option...
Moses, Good, Work, Smoot, Brookhart, Fess, Simmons, Johnson, Longworth, Wilbur, Jardine, Whiting, Sargent, both Cabinet Davises, Mr. Chief Justice Taft, Senator-suspect Vare, the Rockefellers, 'Legger Remus...
...speculative words were penned. No one knew, but a good many thought he would retain Secretaries Mellon (Treasury) Davis (War) and New (Postmaster-General). And nearly everyone thought that the next Attorney-General would not be the incumbent who is Mr. Coolidge's good friend, John Garibaldi Sargent; but would be Mr. Hoover's good friend William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan,* who is now assistant to Mr. Sargent. For Secretary of State, Mr. Hoover would consider, it was believed, the claims and abilities of his chief campaigner, Senator William Edgar Borah; and also, of Dwight Whitney Morrow...
...Attorney General Sargent, Assistant Attorney General Donovan, Dr. Work and Secretary West, a "conspiracy of silence" was imputed by Senator Walsh...
...pork, 200 barrels of potatoes, five truckloads of bread. But it was a prime moment for the Brown Derby to be in the heart of the Midlands. Just before he got there, the Salt Creek oil scandal had broken, involving National G. O. P. Chairman Work and Attorney General Sargent with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and politics (see p. 7). People were waiting to hear what the chief Democrat would say about that. They heard that he was telephoning long distance to Senator Walsh of Montana, the Democratic oil inquisitor...