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Harry Ford Sinclair goes to jail in 1929...
Harry Ford Sinclair goes to jail in 1929...
Item # 724884
November 29, 1929
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Nov. 29, 1929
* Sinclair Oil Corporation founder freed
* Teapot Dome Scandal - bribery
The front page has a nice banner headline: "SINCLAIR, OIL BARON, FREE" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display. Related photo on the back page.
Complete with all 44 pages, this is the "rag edition" printed on very high quality newsprint meant for institutional holdings. In great condition as such.
background: This November 29, 1929, edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune serves as a striking time capsule of the "Roaring Twenties" reaching its litigious and somber end. The banner headline, "SINCLAIR, OIL BARON, FREE," marks the release of Harry Sinclair from a Washington, D.C., jail after serving six and a half months—not for the primary bribery charges of the Teapot Dome Scandal, for which he was technically acquitted, but for contempt of the Senate and the brazen act of hiring private detectives to shadow his jurors. Published exactly one month after the Black Tuesday stock market crash, the issue highlights a surreal intersection of history: while the nation’s wealthiest "barons" were navigating the fallout of the decade's greatest political corruption case, the American public was just beginning to face the economic devastation of the Great Depression.
Category: The 20th Century
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