Word: sinclairism
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...night train for Chicago puffed out of the Cheyenne station. In Harry F. Sinclair's private car were Martin W. Littleton,* George C. Hoover, other lawyers "of counsel for the defense." They left behind them John W. Lacey, ex-Hoosier, ex-school-teacher, ex-Chief Justice of Wyoming, gallant 76-year-old leader of the Rocky Mountain Bar, also "of counsel for the defense." Next morning's Chicago express puffed Eastward with Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, other lawyers "of counsel for the prosecution." The greatest trial in Wyoming history had come...
Sometime soon, prosecution and defense will each send to Judge Kennedy their "briefs," elaborate documentations of all they have been saying in his presence. Judge Kennedy, left behind in Cheyenne, will read them until summer is come and perhaps gone. Ultimately, he will declare that Harry F. Sinclair's lease of Teapot Dome is to be (is not to be) cancelled. Whatever he says, the case will be appealed-probably to the U. S. Circuit Court, St. Paul, Minn...
Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene could win their case for the U. S., could effect the cancellation of Sinclair's lease, if they could prove that fraud entered into the making of the lease. Between the time the Senate quit investigating and the time the Cheyenne trial began, these two eminent lawyers picked up one significantly strong scent. They discovered that a U. S. combine had sold 33,333,333 barrels of oil to a Canadian oil company for $1.50 per barrel, that the Canadian company had resold the oil to another U. S. Company for $1.75 per barrel. Then...
...mere fact that Mr. Upton Sinclair's opera have one and all been decorated with the well deserved and universal Order of the Razzberry has in no wise constrained that gentleman from appearing in his annual...
...Sinclair were not already known as the sourest bellied of all our local swill merchants, his vaudeville might...