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Action. The present Secretary of the Interior, Roy O. West, at once acted on Attorney General Sargent's advice and notified Oilman Sinclair's Crude Oil Purchasing Co.* to stop removing Salt Creek oil. To some 100 other lessors in the Salt Creek field, word was sent that the U. S. elected to take all its royalties in cash until further notice. The Department of Justice began preparing a new fraud suit against Oilman Sinclair. Secretary West cancelled all extension contracts for U. S. royalty oil, and ordered investigation of all oil leases made by Fall and still...
...Villains." The U. S. public speculated as to the relative "villainy" of the principals in the Salt Creek affair. To Oilman Sinclair's record, another black mark was added. It hardly showed against the background. Similarly with Albert Bacon Fall...
Then followed, succinctly, the story of the Salt Creek lease, winding up with the refrain of the whole speech, a phrase from the Republican platform: "The record of the present Administration is a guarantee of what may be expected of the next...
...farm northwest of Chicago, at which 10,000 Republicans consumed six tons of beef and pork, 200 barrels of potatoes, five truckloads of bread. But it was a prime moment for the Brown Derby to be in the heart of the Midlands. Just before he got there, the Salt Creek oil scandal had broken, involving National G. O. P. Chairman Work and Attorney General Sargent with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and politics (see p. 7). People were waiting to hear what the chief Democrat would say about that. They heard that he was telephoning long distance to Senator Walsh...
...visited Casper, Wyo., hard by the famed Teapot Dome and Salt Creek oil reserves. In cutaway and striped trousers, he sat down for "chow" with oil-drillers in a mess hall...