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...Pecora: You were anxious to find out, were you not, why Fitzpatrick got that...
...again faced a circle of investigating Senators who wanted to know why the chairman of a competing oil company later merged with Sinclair Consolidated, had received a 2½% cut in the $12,000,000 profits of the 1928-29 Sinclair stockmarket pool. Prairie Oil's William Samuel Fitzpatrick had not been a syndicate member and the pool's manager Arthur Cutten had been able to shed no light on the transaction (TIME, Nov. 20). Haggard from a recent illness, Harry Sinclair resignedly puffed a black stogy, warily eyed Inquisitor Pecora and added little to the Senators...
...only thing that Oilman Sinclair knew about the Fitzpatrick payment was what Mr. Fitzpatrick had told him. In view of Mr. Fitzpatrick's long service in Prairie, the Rockefellers had confided that they were going to make some money for him, that they had arranged for Blair & Co. to turn the trick. "I told him that it was pretty soft for him," Mr. Sinclair added...
...Nice & Lovely" Next day the Senators let Mr. Fitzpatrick tell his own story. As a small-town Kansas lawyer he became general counsel for Prairie in 1908, rose to president by 1928. Like Harry Sinclair in Independence, Sam Fitzpatrick played in the brass band in Sedan, Kans. In later years in Independence he lived near Harry Sinclair, always rated a standing salute when he spoke in public. But last week Independence citizens, shocked by the $300.000 gift, talked about how Sam Fitzpatrick had sold out their home-town company...
...Sally Fitzpatrick...