Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair was often a caller and overnight guest at the White House before the Teapot Dome oil lease was consummated. President Harding said: "Well, I guess there will be hell to pay but these fellows seem to know what they are doing...
...Grand Jury of the District of Columbia for a second week withheld its action on the evidence that Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and friends had shadowed the petit jury which was trying him for criminal conspiracy, and the further evidence that Detective William J. Burns and aides had perjured themselves in an effort to impugn U. S. agents for jury-tampering (TIME, Oct. 31 et seq.). But the involved Fall-Sinclair oil scandals were not altogether without further lucubrations last week...
...lest his client be further misunderstood by the public. Representative Fish denied having cast upon Mr. Doheny any aspersions in addition to those cast by the U. S. Supreme Court, which mentioned "fraud" and "collusion." Then Representative Fish took occasion to address Lawyer Hogan as follows on the Fall-Sinclair-Doheny business in general: " . . . the country is aflame with righteous indignation at the nasty, sordid revelations both as regards the oil leases and the jury-tampering, and will not be satisfied with halfway measures. The public demands that all involved in either the oil scandal, now four years...
Blackmer's Bonds. For refusing to return to the U. S. from France to testify in the Fall-Sinclair trial, Harry M. Blackmer, one of the main Sinclair vice presidents, was pronounced in contempt of court by Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons, Mr. Sinclair's latest judge. Last fortnight a U. S. Marshall called at a Washington bank and attached for the U. S. $100,000 in Liberty Bonds deposited there in Mr. Blackmer's name. Mr. Blackmer's attorney promised to fight the U. S. for return of this price of silence by testing the constitutionality...
MONEY WRITES!-Upton Sinclair-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Once again fuming, foaming Upton Sinclair girds himself beyond all reason, leaps on his lame but willing steed, and (like Stephen Leacock's famed knight) rides off in all directions. According to Upton, the successful writers of today write either consciously or unconsciously for the benefit of nasty Wall Street. Most of Money Writes! is devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty...