Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Serial numbers on the Liberty Bonds thus used to obtain a cash contribution in Mr. Patten's name, identified them last week as part of the $160,000 given by Sinclair to the G. O. P.-a sum which Treasurer Upham and his furtive colleague, onetime National G. O. P. Chairman Will H. Hays, were at great pains to conceal...
Another week's dredging of the Oil Scandals produced proof of how Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contributions to the G. O. P. in 1923, after a Republican cabinet member had furtively enriched Sinclair with the Teapot Dome lease, were camouflaged by the G. O. P. management. The star witness was James A. Patten, fellowtownsman of Vice President Dawes (Evanston, Ill.)-plainspoken, upstanding, oldtime "wheat king" of the Chicago Board of Trade...
...customary rebuff given the villain of old-time melodrama when he tried to use his ill-gotten gains for improper ends, and if Senator Borah's plan succeeds he will be able to clear the name of the Republican party by applying the same method to Harry F. Sinclair, whose contributions to the 1920 campaign fund of the party have been discovered to be not entirely from altruistic motives. But a necessary accompaniment to such a speech is the gold itself, and unhappily the Republicans have long ago seen the last of it disappear for "election expenses" of one kind...
...indictment of Col. Robert W. Stewart, board chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, for contemptuous refusal to testify to the Senate all he knows about the dubious disposal of the dubious profits of Sinclair's Continental Trading...
...elevation of Major Peyton Gordon, U. S. Attorney who has twice convicted Sinclair-for contempt of the Senate and for jury-tampering in contempt of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia-to the bench of the latter Court, by President Coolidge...