Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee wanted to ask Mr. Hays more about Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contributions to the G. O. P. made in 1923 a few months after Mr. Hays' fellow Cabinet member, Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall, had bestowed on Sinclair the crooked Teapot Dome oil lease...
...Hays had gone over the same ground with the Committee four years ago, when the Oil Scandals first gushed. At that time, Senator Walsh had said: "Do you know how much he [Sinclair] did give...
Last week, Mr. Hays anticipated his cross-examiners with a statement which raised the "maximum" of Sinclair's contributions to $260,000 and the actual net of his gifts to $160,000. Mr. Hays tried hard to explain what looked like, yet may not have been, flat perjury. The explanation was this...
...Albert Bacon Fall, Harding Cabinet man who gave the Teapot Dome lease to Sinclair, as "payment" by Sinclair for a one-third interest in the Fall's New Mexico ranch, which was to have been turned into a country club but still remains a ranch...
...Republican National Committee, from Sinclair, as a contribution towards the deficit incurred in the Harding campaign...