Word: domes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captains of industry' who have millions invested in the Philippines are also heavy contributors to the campaign chest of the Republican Party. In the name of God, Members of the American Congress, I beseech you to give us our independence before the Philippines, like the 'Teapot Dome' and the naval oil lands, are donated to campaign contributors whose mouths are watering for our golden natural resources...
...even as far as the Chairman of the present Committee William M. Butler. The only hope the G. O. P. heads can have is to prove that no men now of rank in the party as it now stands were involved in any of the ramifications of the Teapot Dome affair, and if this fails, their prospects of a third successive period of office will be damaged almost beyond repair...
...Committee wanted to ask Mr. Hays more about Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contributions to the G. O. P. made in 1923 a few months after Mr. Hays' fellow Cabinet member, Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall, had bestowed on Sinclair the crooked Teapot Dome oil lease...
...Albert Bacon Fall, Harding Cabinet man who gave the Teapot Dome lease to Sinclair, as "payment" by Sinclair for a one-third interest in the Fall's New Mexico ranch, which was to have been turned into a country club but still remains a ranch...
Quaint, but probably constructed within the last millenium, the bogus "tomb" was an enclosure whose walls marked the outline of a supposedly buried female of gigantic stature. At the head was a raised mound. Midway in the enclosure rose a small whitewashed dome, protecting from the elements a mystic black stone, El Surrah...