First there was an oil lease. Then there was suspicion. Investigations followed suspicion. Suits, civil and criminal, followed investigation. Out of the civil suits came proven illegalities and the U. S. got back its "Teapot Dome" oil reserve in Natrona
County, Wyo., Out of the criminal suit in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, to see if Albert Bacon Fall, onetime (1921-23) Cabinet man, and Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, were criminals or not, came more suspicion, much confusion, a mistrial.
The Principals. Albert Bacon Fall, his lungs congested, despaired greatly and wished...
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