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...first cases springing directly from the Oil Scandal was tried in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision stated that the leases of the Teapot Dome lands should be cancelled due to fraud. Not one of the people incriminated in the trial have taken the stand to defend themselves. They have evidently decided that whatever they say might incriminate them. Doheny stated that all the charges made against him were false. He awaited only the opportunity to clear himself. When the time came, he never made the least attempt to appear before the court. This is no plea...
...first tried, deciding that the lease of the Elk, Hills Reservation should be cancelled due to fraud. The case was taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the decision, and the matter is now appendine in the Supreme Court. Later the courts refused to cancel the Teapot Dome lease...
Last week, the civil proceedings moved another stage nearer completion. The Government won a victory in its attempt to recover the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves which onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased to the Mammoth Oil Co. (a Harry F. Sinclair institution). Judge William Squire Kenyon- presiding judge of Iowa, in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis, reversed the decision of the Wyoming district court (TIME, June 29, 1925); ordered it to cancel the Mammoth Oil Co.'s leases and to demand an accounting of the oil which...
...Teapot Dome case the Government's triumph is complete in all points. The only remaining recourse of the Sinclair interests is an appeal to the Supreme Court...
...Kenyon is often mentioned as potential material for a future Supreme Court appointment. +The day after Judge Kenyon's decision, the common stock of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. fell to a new low for the year (18%). Meanwhile, statisticians busied themselves, announced that the oil yields from Teapot Dome had been disappointing after...