Word: dome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statements. Albert Bacon Fall, ill with lung congestion, again called attention to "my integrity and the complete rectitude of my every action in connection with the Teapot Dome lease." He disavowed any connection with any "jury-hanging" plot. Nevertheless, it was discovered that one of his counsel, Lawyer Mark Thompson, had telephoned a friend of Mr. Fall's at the U. S. Department of Justice to "look up the record" of a colleague who was being sleuthed by the Burns...
...Villain" Burns emerged when, as Chief of the Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice under Harry Micajah Daugherty (1921-24), he was quizzed by Senate investigators about the use of one of the Bureau's codes? in an alleged Teapot Dome crockery; about trying to get evidence to "smear" Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, one of the oil scandal investigators; and about an alleged conspiracy with Mr. Daugherty to permit illegal transport of Dempsey-Carpentier fight films. Nothing came of these investigation but "Villain" Burns resigned a few weeks after "Villain" Daugherty. The new Attorney General (Harlan...
...contempt of court. The libel was published in Magee's Albuquerque newspaper in exposures of state government corruption. Two pardons and a habeas corpus proceedings kept Mr. Magee at large. Magee's testimony of recent prosperity of Albert Bacon Fall was important evidence in the Teapot Dome scandal. Editor Magee is a fighting man, a bitter enemy of municipal, state or national corruption; calling a spade a spade and saying it with headlines. He is the new editor of the Oklahoma City News, Scripps Howard paper...
Hard by the Manhattan entrance to Brooklyn Bridge and facing the City Hall, stands the Pulitzer Building. Thirty-seven years ago this building was proudly reared by Joseph Pulitzer, superlatively able parent of the present Pulitzers, proprietors of the World. Atop the building glints the famed gold dome, and that remains the same. The deep intestines of the building have been changed. Four years ago executives perceived that equipment in printing, paper and production had exceeded the capacity of the pressrooms. Uneven quality of paper and shaky printing made no daily match for the immaculately dressed Times and Herald-Tribune...
...People Should Be Happy." After the Teapot Dome verdict was announced last week, Lawyer Owen J. Roberts, colleague of onetime U. S. Senator Atlee Pomerene on the Government's legal staff, proclaimed: "The people of the United States . . . should be very happy this night...