Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sorts of evidence continued to pile up at Committee hearings, about those who had an interest in the leasing of Teapot Dome. One J. Leo Stack, a Colorado oil operator, testified that he had heard of the lease to Sinclair a week before it was made. Another, John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Chicago Evening Post, The Indianapolis Star, The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Times and other papers, testified that Secretary Fall had told him of the impending lease a year before it was signed. He also admitted receiving $92,500 for a one-eighth share in the prior...
...firm of Wilson and Colby (ex-President and former Secretary of State) had declined in 1922 a large fee from Sinclair to represent him in a threatened Senate investigation. Mr. Wilson believed it improper for a former official to represent a private party before the Government...
George H. Babbitt, butter-and-egg man of Tiffin, Ohio, and cousin to the prominent realtor about whom Mr. Sinclair Lewis wrote a book, comes to Manhattan for the Fodder Products Convention. With him comes Mrs. Babbitt and all the little Babbitts...
...terms of the leases, the Government receives a royalty in oil of about 17%. About two-thirds of this royalty is turned over to the Doheny and Sinclair companies for other services which they render. Thus of about 26,000,000 barrels of oil now estimated to be in Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome), the Government will receive about 1,666,666 barrels. The oil companies drill the wells, refine the oil, transport it (in the case of Sinclair and Teapot Dome, to the Coast; in the case of Doheny and Reserve No. 1, to Hawaii) and build oil storage...
...POTTERS?Rubbing salt into the bourgeois mind wounded by Sinclair Lewis...