Word: sinclairism
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April 7-12, 1922, Secretary Fall leased Naval Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome) to Harry Ford Sinclair, who turned it over to the Mammoth Oil Co. in exchange for $106,000,000 of stock...
...since steel has gone out of fashion lead is the only metal available for those who would live by their wits. The game of course has its drawbacks, some of which Mr. Vanderlip points out in his criticism of the press. A criticism not as virulent as Mr. Upton Sinclair's, but their if everyone criticized as Mr. Sinclair what would become of Mr. Sinclair...
...Senate Committee on Public Lands has been delving in and out of the question of the leasing of Government oil reserves, especially that reserve in Wyoming generally known as Teapot Dome. Under the regime of Albert B. Fall as Secretary of the Interior that reserve was leased to the Sinclair Oil interests. There was much conflicting technical testimony about the wisdom of that lease?and some smoke was raised. It was not until last week, when an apparent contradiction in Mr. Fall's declarations was discovered, that the Senate burst into the full flame of oratory...
...Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant secretary of the Navy (sons of the late President), appeared before the investigating Committee and volunteered testimony. Colonel Roosevelt little more than introduced his brother "Archie Roosevelt declared that he had just resigned as Vice President of the Union Petroleum Co., the export auxiliary of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co., because his suspicions had been aroused over the activities of the Sinclair interest in connection with Teapot Dome. Following Senator Caraways declaration Mr Sinclair had sailed hurriedly for Europe, and he believed several others connected with the affair had done likewise. Mr. Sinclair's private Secretary...
...stage hardly boasts two more accomplished comediennes than Grace George and Laura Hope Crews. The scenes between them are studies in the impalpable artistry of personality. The cast of their compatriots is evenly competent, distinguished in the playing of Mary Ellis and Arthur Sinclair. Aside from some disturbing descents into melodrama and the rather obvious machinery of plot, the play is a decided addition to the display spread for the metropolitan multitude...