Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Renewal. The discovery of all these facts was in progress last winter just before and at the moment that Secretary Work had to decide about letting Sinclair exercise his Salt Creek option. Besides the Senate's investigation, the trial of Sinclair for criminal conspiracy was then fresh in Washington's mind. Sinclair's was an extraordinary name indeed, but Dr. Work took no extraordinary precautions. He simply asked the Solicitor of the Interior Department if he thought Sinclair's option was valid. Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson said he thought...
Further Investigation. Last April, stirred by the Senate's activity, President Coolidge ordered the Department of Justice to look into and report on the Salt Creek lease to Sinclair. Attorney General Sargent turned the matter over to Assistant Attorney General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan. The result was awaited attentively, not only by Senator Walsh, but by Senator Capper of Kansas. The latter, a faithful Republican, did not seek to embarrass the Administration, but there were potent oil men in Kansas who wanted to know what was what. Not the lease provocative feature of Oilman Sinclair's Salt...
Action. The present Secretary of the Interior, Roy O. West, at once acted on Attorney General Sargent's advice and notified Oilman Sinclair's Crude Oil Purchasing Co.* to stop removing Salt Creek oil. To some 100 other lessors in the Salt Creek field, word was sent that the U. S. elected to take all its royalties in cash until further notice. The Department of Justice began preparing a new fraud suit against Oilman Sinclair. Secretary West cancelled all extension contracts for U. S. royalty oil, and ordered investigation of all oil leases made by Fall and still...
...Villains." The U. S. public speculated as to the relative "villainy" of the principals in the Salt Creek affair. To Oilman Sinclair's record, another black mark was added. It hardly showed against the background. Similarly with Albert Bacon Fall...
...goat." Hard though the thing was on Dr. Work, danger as well as pain threatened the man to whom Dr. Work pointed as the author of his error-Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson of the Interior Department, the one lawyer whose opinion Dr. Work sought in renewing Sinclair's lease. Dr. Work is, or was, a bland, trusting, optimistic soul, full of cheery conversation and good spirits. Solicitor Patterson was his own choice. He had him appointed in 1926 by President Coolidge-a typical smalltown lawyer-politician from the Midwest, born and raised in Iowa, taken to Washington...