Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collaboration of prominent men was necessary to the scheme, and the searchers finally reached the summit when Senator Nye, chairman of the committee, announced that the estate of the late Warren G. Harding would be investigated for traces of the missing Continental Oil Company bonds which were part of Sinclair's contribution to the campaign fund. The fact that a president of the United States should be suspected of receiving bribes shows the extent to which dishonesty had spread in the administration of that time. Even if the president himself was not implicated, it is apparent that he made...
Satisfied that Mr. Patten had known nothing of the Sinclair-Hays-Upham machinations, Senator Walsh asked Mr. Patten if he knew of other Chicagoans who had similarly been asked to give cash for Liberty Bonds. Mr. Patten knew of none such, but he spoke freely of other Chicago patrons of the G. O. P. He named William Wrigley, "who is in Chicago hardly one month out of the year," and Arthur Cutten, another grain man. "I presume the McCormicks would come in that list," Mr. Patten added...
...slippery Will H. Hays. In the mass of testimony, the Committee came upon a memorandum bearing minute pencil notations. A microscope revealed four names: "Weeks," "Andy," du Pont," "Butler." Two of these names the Committee could understand. In his testimony Mr. Hays had mentioned sending $25,000 of Sinclair's Liberty Bonds to the late John W. Weeks, at that time Secretary of War. Another $75,000 had gone to U. S. Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont, to meet a note due in Manhattan. Mr. Hays had not mentioned "Andy" or "Butler...
While the Committee awaited an explanation from William Morgan Butler, present G. O. P. chairman, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon explained who "Andy" was. He had, he said, received $50,000 worth of Sinclair's Liberty Bonds from Mr. Hays, who asked for $50,000 cash in exchange. "Andy" said he had declined to have anything to do with the bonds, but contributed $50,000 outright. The investigators were sorry "Andy" had been so slow to disclose this additional light on the Hays-Sinclair performance, and invited him to come over from the Treasury Department to tell more...
Chairman Butler telegraphed that he had never received any of Sinclair's Liberty bonds from Mr. Hays. At the same time, Senator Borah published a letter that he had just written to Chairman Butler: ". . . The Republican party received large sums . . . from Mr. Sinclair, which the Republican party cannot in honor and decency keep. . . . The whole transaction . . . had in view an ulterior and sinister purpose. . . . I feel that this money should be returned to the source from which it came. We cannot in self-respect or in justice to the voters in the party keep it. . . . I venture the opinion...