Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being a bricklayer, an electrician, a clerk in a music store, an instructor of long distance telephone operators or a tire repair man, and being unexpectedly confronted, in person, with two men whose names have been appearing in newspaper headlines for four years. Connected with their names?Harry Ford Sinclair and Albert Bacon Fall?was something about oil, oil in Wyoming, oil belonging to the U. S. Navy. Millions of dollars had been involved. Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Fall were accused of doing something wrong about a lease, some liberty bonds, various oil companies, subpoenas, jurisdictions, previous decisions? all very...
Imagine being seated in the jury box of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons presiding, and quizzed by immensely professional lawyers to see if you were a fit person to decide the guilt or innocence of the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair...
...noticeable that other talesmen who had read about the Fall-Sinclair oil scandal in the newspapers were opionated as Grocer Cooperman as to the probity of the defendants. But few talesmen had read about the case at all. A dozen peers whose lack of knowledge was adequate were soon chosen to try whether or not the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair conspired criminally to defraud the U. S. Besides the bricklayer, clerk, telephone instructress, electrician and tire repair man, the dozen included an auto salesman, a baker's delivery man, a leather worker, another clerk, a floorwalker, an ice salesman...
...fortune big enough for him to help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with his Rancocas stables (including World's Champion Horse Zev) and to be offered (so the story goes)' the throne of Albania?fleshy but firm, quiet but quick-eyed, Harry P. Sinclair sat erect and whispered incessantly with his counsel...
...item above represents the extent of the loss suffered by Oilman Sinclair & associates. Only Congress can reimburse them for their outlay on Teapot Dome, the court holding that the illegality of their lease voids their equity in tanks, pipelines, oil stores, etc., acquired under same...