Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several witnesses, including Senator Kendrick of Wyoming, President Amos Leonidas Beaty of the Texas Oil Co. and Edward Clingan Finney, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, gave testimony showing how Fall kept the Sinclair lease secret, even from his chief lieutenant, in such a way as to bar out other bidders...
Lawyer Roberts showed that Sinclair valued the lease at $100,000,000 before he got it; that he made $8,000,000 by stock manipulations immediately after getting the lease. These facts were introduced in anticipation of a defense story that Sinclair leased Teapot Dome "reluctantly...
...Lawyers. Lawyer Wright, first spokesman for the defense, is not Sinclair's chief council. That office is still held by Martin W. Littleton, the plump, fastidious, white-wooled Manhattanite to whom Senator Walsh lately suggested that he might well resign since his client had deceived him about important particulars of the case before the last trial. Lawyer Littleton's reply to Senator Walsh was: "Meddlesome Matties!" If it is true that Sinclair tried to get Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, the man who got Oilman Doheny acquitted, to replace Lawyer Littleton this time, Lawyer Littleton gave no sign...
Evidence. Lawyer Owen J. Roberts (prosecution) showed that Fall visited Manhattan for two days in February, 1922, just prior to receiving Sinclair's bid for the lease. Sinclair was in Manhattan. Oddly, Sinclair's bid met the Interior Department's specifications for the lease almost exactly. Did Fall write Sinclair...
...Everhart testified that $304,000 was the total of "loans" and "purchase money" passed from Sinclair to Fall...