Word: domes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sorts of evidence continued to pile up at Committee hearings, about those who had an interest in the leasing of Teapot Dome. One J. Leo Stack, a Colorado oil operator, testified that he had heard of the lease to Sinclair a week before it was made. Another, John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Chicago Evening Post, The Indianapolis Star, The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Times and other papers, testified that Secretary Fall had told him of the impending lease a year before it was signed. He also admitted receiving $92,500 for a one-eighth share in the prior...
...wants to discourage Mr. Thompson in his scientific inquiries, but after Teapot Dome and Mr. Bok are through, perhaps the Senate will want to investigate the case of the fish that climbs trees in the South Sea Islands...
...Xanadu" one reads, "did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree" and lo! immediately "it was a miracle of rare device...
Some enterprising journalist invited Dr. Walter E. Traprock, F. R. S., S. E. U., lecturer and author of The Cruise of the Kawa, My Northern Exposure and Sarah of the Sahara, to investigate Teapot Dome. The obliging doctor is producing a series of articles which are being syndicated for the press by Hol-Nord Features. The articles are in the form of regular news stories, under Washington date line, and contain everything but a shadow of truth...
Thereafter in succeeding articles Dr. Traprock told of his delvings into the bowels of Teapot Dome with his great slogan "Refined Oil for Refined People...