Word: domes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which newspaper readers are interested. But the persistent appearance of Messrs. Sinclair, Doheny and Fall in large black headlines arouses one's curiosity as to whether the dailies know after all, what the public wants. Even divorce reports become a trifle stale after the first two weeks; the Teapot Dome has occupied the center of the stage in one guise or another for two months...
...counsel for the Government, took train from the Capital and reached Cheyenne. Harry F. Sinclair and his lawyers also went west. In the Federal District Court of Cheyenne, Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene asked a temporary injunction to restrain the Mammoth Oil Co. from drilling or operating wells on Teapot Dome. They alleged that the lease to the Mammoth Co. was illegal, 1) because it rested on an in-valid Executive Order of President Harding transferring control of the naval oil reserve to the Department of the Interior; 2) because it was executed without authority of law; 3) because...
...Federal District Court at Los Angeles, the special counsel for the Government obtained a temporary injunction on the Doheny companies to prevent them from operating their leases. The charges made were much the same as those of the Teapot Dome complaint. Rear Admiral Harry H. Rousseau and J. Crampton Anderson, President of the Pan-American Petroleum Co., were named joint receivers. In order to protect the Government's naval and oil interests as well as the interests of the lessee, the receivers were empowered to carry out the existing contracts, and to drill additional wells, if necessary to protect...
Fame, unsought and perhaps unwelcome, has come to two of the naval petroleum reserves?Teapot Dome and Elk Hills, immortally linked with Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny. These reserves may well be envious of their younger brother, reserve No. 4, which is just about to be explored. Last week a telegram reached the Department of the Interior. It stated that Dr. Philip S. Smith of the Geological Survey had just left Nenana, on the Alaskan Railway, with a dozen men and 140 Eskimo dogs, going out into the unknown...
Others see the question differently. To Mr. Whalen it is : "Are the common people in danger?" to the Federal Trade Commission it is : "Has a violation of the Sherman anti-trust act been committed?" Congress, immersed in Teapot Dome and its byproducts, ignored the question...