National Affairs: Wealth on Trial

"Now. Mr. Sinclair, about your Teapot Dome lease, will you please tell the commmittee"

"I decline to answer on advice of coun-sel."

Nine years have passed since Montana's grim-jawed Senator "Tom" Walsh, before a breathless audience that packed the big marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building, hammered out the questions & answers which sent Harry Sinclair to jail for contempt, put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars as a bribe-taker. Nine years have made the Oil Scandal investigation ancient political history. But its drama, its sensationalism, its clash and color of personalities were recalled...