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Prosecution. What the Government had to prove was that Oilman Sinclair had conspired with Albert Bacon Fall, Secretary of the Interior in the Harding Cabinet, to lease the Teapot Dome oil reserve fraudulently in 1922. The Government proceeded to show that Fall avoided other bids for the lease until after Sinclair's lease was secretly signed; that Sinclair later gave Fall $304,000 in cash and Liberty Bonds, $233,000 being for a one-third interest in Fall's ranch, for which Sinclair never took a receipt. The Government was prepared to show that the Fall ranch...
...entirely upon the testimony of Captain John K. Robison, U. S. N. retired. Robison stated that he, as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Engineering in 1921 had made the suggestion which led Secretary of the Navy Denby to have President Harding transfer Teapot Dome to the Interior Department. It was his idea and Secretary Denby's he said, to have Fall lease the oil reserve to some company which would build tanks, and store oil for the Navy. Also, there would be royalties. Secrecy was urged because in 1921, the Navy Department had a "scare" about...
Several witnesses, including Senator Kendrick of Wyoming, President Amos Leonidas Beaty of the Texas Oil Co. and Edward Clingan Finney, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, gave testimony showing how Fall kept the Sinclair lease secret, even from his chief lieutenant, in such a way as to bar out other bidders...
...famed Cartel des Gauches or Coalition of the Left Parties, which has been the strongest influence in French politics for 25 years. These men include Minister of Education Edouard Herriot, who has bungled so often as Prime Minister, Louis Loucheur "the richest man in France," and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut. Their orbit usually encompasses such more independent socialists as famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and that great mathematician War Minister Paul Painlev...
...behalf of its protegé. The U. S. alleges that by the use of ''petting . . . seductive smiles" Mrs. Barnett kidnaped her husband, married him twice (in Kansas, and in Missouri) in expectation of the $500,000 gift of the government authorized by Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall for Barnett...