Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directly or indirectly concerned with this monster transaction (gross profits, if the barrels were really sold, of $8,333,333), not one except Sinclair was in the country during the trial. Therefore, they did not testify. Therefore, Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene could definitely prove nothing. (Sinclair refused to testify because he is already under a District of Columbia indictment...
...silence significant?" asked Prosecuting' Attorney Roberts in his summing-up. "The defense is silent as the tomb," said Prosecuting Attorney Pomerene. To which, venerable Defending Attorney Lacey replied by demanding that all evidence concerning the monster deal be stricken from the records because there was nothing to implicate Sinclair with the bond transfer. And Defending Attorney Littleton added later the sneer that, some months ago, the Government "got bond hungry and went bond hunting all over...
News came from Moscow that an ordinary court of law had annulled the Sakhalin Island concession granted by the Bolshevik Government in 1923 to the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co. on the ground that the Company had failed to keep its agreements. At Moscow, it was said that the case would not be take to a court of appeal, though a representative of Harry F. Sinclair in the U. S. averred that it would be appealed. The sum of $100,000, paid to the Bolshevik Government as a guarantee of fulfillment, was ordered to be returned...
...terms under which the concession was granted expressly provided that the Sinclair interests should attempt to enlist the cooperation of the U. S. Government. There seems no reason to doubt that the Bolsheviki hoped to force the U. S. to recognize Russia by making it afford the Sinclair Co. protection. No account was taken of the political theory of the U. S. that no private interest can dictate the foreign policy of the Government at Washington...
There remains to be considered the fact that, at the time the Sinclair concession was made, the Bolshevik Government was making recognition overtures to the Japanese Government and that Japanese troops were occupying Northern Sakhalin, which accounted for the inability of the Sinclair interests to work its concession. There is nothing to prove collusion between the Japanese and the Bolsheviki to void the Sinclair concession; but, in the Russo-Japanese treaty (Protocol B., Article 1) signed Jan. 20, 1925, it was expressly provided that Japanese were to receive "concessions for the exploitation of 50% of the area of every...