Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a new judge. There was a new jury. There was a certain amount of new evidence. But it was the same old case-the U. S. v. Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for alleged conspiracy to defraud...
...same old Teapot Dome hung upon legal pothooks. The same old stories were expected from the defense: how, in 1921, the Navy Department wanted oil storage tanks in case of War; how, in 1922, Oilman Sinclair took the Teapot Dome lease for "patriotic" as well as private reasons; how he invested in Liberty Bonds for like reasons, and gave wads of these bonds to Albert Bacon Fall, the Secretary of the Interior who leased him Teapot Dome, not as a gift but to buy an interest in Fall's ranch in New Mexico. There was the same Fall...
...Senate, Candidate Walsh arraigned Senator Robinson of Indiana, who last month tried to connect Candidate Smith with Oilman Sinclair. "The Governor of New York," said the Senator from Montana, "is an extraordinary man in many particulars. Even calumny has not dared to assert that he is not an honest man. . . . The Governor of New York needs no defense from me. Nor does he require any defense . . . from...
When Secretary of the Treasury Mellon testified before the Senate investigating committee in regard to the bonds contributed to the Republican Party by Harry F. Sinclair, the newspapers generally gave the Secretary credit for his action, but the committee's prosecutor let Boston know that he disapproved of Mellon's action by pointing out that Mellon must have known from the beginning of the iniquity attached to Sinclair's contribution. Mellon refused to censure Will Hay's acceptance of the money or to give any information to the committee at the time. Senator Walsh said that when Mellon was made...
When large purchases of the common stock of Harry F. Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. were made in Manhattan, last week, by an undetected buyer this person was rumored to be Motor Man Ford. Before the Majestic sailed, however, Mr. Ford declared unequivocally, "I do not plan to purchase any new industries or purchase any more motor car companies in the near future. My hands are pretty full...