Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three, the last and least, Indiana's Robinson, has participated most obscurely in governing the U. S., until last fortnight. Then, thinking he saw a chance to drag the Democratic Party into the Oil Scandal, he stood up in the Senate and falsely imputed a relation with Oilman Sinclair to Governor Smith of New York. "Birds of a feather!" he jibed. Democrats soon stuffed Indiana's own jailbirds and Klan feathers down Senator Robinson's throat (TIME, April...
Last week he tried again, this time remarking, with carefully prepared smirks and innuendos, that members of the Wilson Cabinet had entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny after leaving office; that Senator Walsh had praised Oilman Doheny when the latter gave advice on the legislation that made the Oil Scandal possible...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, who last week faced trial, a second time and less hopefully, for criminal conspiracy to defraud the U. S., has learned a lot about Destiny. Sinclair is not yet 52 years old. He was born in Wheeling, W. Va. It is less than 25 years since he was first heard of in Wall Street and on Long Island as a wealthy young parvenu from the midwestern oilfields. It is not 30 years since he was the son of a village druggist in Kansas, a son who, when his father died, lacked the patience to keep...
...Young Sinclair's logs brought a profit. He sank the money in an Oklahoma oil pool and came out with $100,000. Soon he was a millionaire producer with properties dotted all through the midwest, from southern Kansas to northern Texas. He would spot a place, buy or lease it, develop it, sell out and look for another place. He kept control of richest wells...
Superficially the repaying of the sum to Sinclair could do no lasting good. The money actually was not rightfully his in the first place. Then such a repayment would not effectively wash the stain from the Republican robe of state. Now, with the suggestion that Mr. Borah donate the sum already gathered to the needy miners of Pennsylvania, the original purpose of the scheme has come to naught. The secondary result which the "Nation" hints at still remains nevertheless. Mr. Borah, though the possibility of his ever attaining to the Presidency through such a stroke is most improbable...