Word: sinclairism
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...Sarderson, geologist from Minnesota, was called upon to testify in regard to Teapot Dome. He asserted that oil wells in adjoining fields might draw off most of the gas in the reserve, but could not drain away any considerable portion of the oil. C Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, who refused to testify before the Committee when summoned for the sixth time, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for violating Section 102, of the Revised Statutes-contempt of the Senate by refusing to testify on the grounds that the Public Lands Committee had no authority to require...
...found three accounts: W. W. Spaid No. 4 (belonging to Mr. Daugherty), W. W. Spaid No. 3 (belonging to Jesse Smith) and W. W. Spaid No. 2 (belonging jointly to Smith and Daugherty). The books showed that Mr. Smith had made a profit of about $3,700 in Sinclair and Doheny stock...
...crown of Albania has twice been offered to Americans, once to Jerome Bonaparate of Manhattan; once to a millionaire said to be Harry F. Sinclair. Last week, Ulysses Grant-Smith (TIME, Dec. 24), American Minister at Tirana, announced that a wandering millionaire strolled into his office to see if that there king job was still open to a live bird with plenty of dough...
FATUOUS INSOLENCE Sinclair, one of the beneficiaries of Fall's prostitution of the office of Secretary of the Interior, follows Fall in refusing to testify before a Senate committee, on the ground that his testimony might incriminate...
...Sinclair's right, if he chooses to assert it. thus virtually to admit his guilt...