Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-five long months have elapsed since an unadvertised Senate Committee on Public Lands delved into the matter of oil leases made by Mr. Fall to the oil barons, Sinclair and Doheny...
...Federal Grand Jury was scheduled to convene in Washing ton to hear criminal charges against Messrs. Fall, Sinclair, Doheny, Doheny...
Over a year has passed since this Thomas J. Walsh and fellow Democrats tarred and feathered the names Fall, Sinclair, Doheny...
...beyond this public lynching?of which Senator Walsh was the impassive, modest hero?nothing has transpired which permits the word "criminal" to be attached to Fall, Sinclair, Doheny...
Criminal Grand Jury indictments charging bribery, the receiving of bribes, conspiracy to defraud the U. S., had been obtained against Messrs. Doheny, Fall, Sinclair. Last week, the indictments were thrown out of court by Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy of the District of Columbia Supreme Court on a technical point (an assistant to the Attorney General had unlawfully appeared before the investigating Special Grand Jury). Mr. McCoy, a Democrat appointed by President Wilson, is credited with knowing the law well. His technical point will presumably be sus- tained when Messrs. Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, Government counsel, appeal...