Word: domes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once a word that lubricated the jaws of the nation. Newspapers screamed it, preachers damned it, Mr. Average Citizen swallowed it and was shocked. That was back in 1923 when the Senate was airing the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil scandals of the Harding Administration. Soon the tumult died, the people forgot, and the wheels of justice began to churn ponderously...
Last week, the civil proceedings moved another stage nearer completion. The Government won a victory in its attempt to recover the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves which onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased to the Mammoth Oil Co. (a Harry F. Sinclair institution). Judge William Squire Kenyon- presiding judge of Iowa, in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis, reversed the decision of the Wyoming district court (TIME, June 29, 1925); ordered it to cancel the Mammoth Oil Co.'s leases and to demand an accounting of the oil which...
...Teapot Dome case the Government's triumph is complete in all points. The only remaining recourse of the Sinclair interests is an appeal to the Supreme Court...
Then, pattering eagerly ahead, he led them to a tiny door, opened it, revealed a dark ascending stair. "This stairway leads," said the Abbe Loubiere, "to the dome. There the view is truly superb. Come!" Last week the Abbe gathered newspapermen about him on the steps of the Sacre Coeur, confided eagerly...
...Then a. month ago three American girls came here to the Church. One of them asked me to bless a rosary, and because I am always interested in Americans I took her up and up into the great dome to see the view...