Word: domes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midnight of a January evening, the President issued from the White House a statement that he would have the Department of Justice institute prosecutions against those implicated in the Senate's Teapot Dome disclosures...
April 30, 1915, President Wilson created Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome) near Casper, Wyo., containing 9,481 acres. (There are two other Reserves, Nos. 4 and 5, in Utah in the shale oil region...
Aside from any considerations of national defense or possible fraudulent handling of public property, the "Teapot Dome" scandal has assumed almost a purely political aspect. It happens that the Navy Department has lost nothing from the standpoint of national defense; it may turn out that the graft which the layman has come to expect in public administration was even less malignant than usual. But the affair has been an excuse for setting off all the fireworks of party animosity, of corrosive personal attacks and of bitter Congressional suspicion...
...Roosevelt little more than introduced his brother "Archie Roosevelt declared that he had just resigned as Vice President of the Union Petroleum Co., the export auxiliary of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co., because his suspicions had been aroused over the activities of the Sinclair interest in connection with Teapot Dome. Following Senator Caraways declaration Mr Sinclair had sailed hurriedly for Europe, and he believed several others connected with the affair had done likewise. Mr. Sinclair's private Secretary Mr. G. D. Wahlberg had advised Mr. Roosevelt to resign for fear of damage to his reputation, and Mr Wahlberg had mentioned...
...church follows the traditions of papal Rome. It will be circular, traversed by a Greek Cross, on the arms of which will rise jewelled chapels. Short flights of steps will give access to these chapels through arches representing the triumph of the Gospel. The interior of the dome will be 201 feet, the exterior 344 feet...