Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While criminal and civil actions were being prepared, Fall took a trip abroad with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair (who paid his expenses). If they had stayed abroad, as two other characters in the Oil Scandals did, Fall would have been spared further sad trips between the Southwest and Washington to his trials...
...Fall has also to be cleared of conspiring with Sinclair to defraud the U. S. It was with Sinclair that Fall last went on trial, two years ago, when Sinclair shadowed the jury and a mistrial was declared. When that case was retried in the spring of 1928, Fall was too ill to be a codefendant. Sinclair was acquitted (TIME, April...
...Trial of Albert Bacon Fall, onetime Secretary of the Interior, starts at Washington. Charge: accepting bribes for leasing Teapot Dome oil reserve to Harry Ford Sinclair...
...President made a brief announcement that following the recommendation of the Attorney-General he would issue no pardon to Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, in jail for contempt of Senate (refusing to answer questions) and of court (jury shadowing), or to Henry Mason Day, Mr. Sinclair's henchman. Day has a passport to go to Europe next month when he will be released in the regular course of events. Sinclair must wait till November, in spite of his plea that his weight has fallen from 200 Ibs. to 185 Ibs., that stockholders are suffering from his absence...
Samuel C. Hildreth, 63, oldest U. S. race horse trainer, longtime handler of Harry Ford Sinclair's Rancocas stables (Zev), owner of Strombolt Farm (Trenton, N. J.), entered a Manhattan hospital for observation and intestinal operation...