For the first time, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair appeared before a court fortnight ago to answer criminal charges arising from his leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. This was the result of U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision (TIME, Jan. 31) that witnesses who refused to answer proper and pertinent questions when summoned by Congress, may be punished for contempt. Mr. Sinclair had defied a Senate investigating committee in 1924. That was why he found himself in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. After a ten-day trial and acting...
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