Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cheyenne, the Government's civil suit to cancel the lease of the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve to Harry F. Sinclair (TIME, Mar. 23) wound to an ineffectual close. The Government charged conspiracy and attempted to connect up the lease with payment of alleged bribes to ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall. A payment of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds in 1923. after Mr. Fall had resigned from office and was in Mr. Sinclair's employ, was established. But the defense argued that this was a legitimate loan and had nothing to do with the Teapot Lease...
...purpose of the early part of the Government's case was to establish that, through a Canadian company as a blind, Sinclair, a Canadian named Osler, H. M. Blackmer of the Midland Refining Co., James E. O'Neil of the Prairie Oil and Gas Company and others had undertaken a fake transaction in oil by which they made some millions- that these profits were converted into Liberty Bonds- that Secretary Fall got a block of these bonds for the Teapot Dome Lease. Osler, Blackmer and O'Neil have taken up quarters in Europe beyond the Court...
Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene got a man who sold oil to Sinclair et al to tell his story. Then they requisitioned bank records to show that Mr. Fall had received Liberty Bonds, hoping to trace these bonds back to the oil transaction. The court ruled that these records did not directly connect Fall and Sinclair in conspiracy and were therefore "manifestly immaterial." Thereupon, the Government counsel prepared to go into the second scene and attempted to trace the bonds in the opposite direction- from Sinclair to Fall. Because so many witnesses are abroad, this will be difficult, but Messrs. Roberts...
...Author. Sinclair Lewis - son and grandson of doctors, onetime reporter, now 40 and the Nation's semiofficial castigator, - may be somewhat rosily seen as he has projected himself in Lie-Hunter Arrowsmith. Yale made no pet of him when he matriculated from Sauk Center, Minn. ; but, after he wrote Main Street, his Yale class asked him to speak at a reunion. Lewis did speak - a brief, baleful curse upon that class...
...ARROWSMITH - Sinclair Lewis - Harcourt. Brace...