Word: domes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats having chosen Editorial Writer Claude Gernade Bowers of the New York Evening World for convention Keynoter, interest was aroused by Walter Lippmann who, as chief editorial writer of the morning World, holds forth under the same gold publishing dome as Mr. Bowers. Addressing some women Democrats in Manhattan last week, Mr. Lippmann said: "Great personalities, bold programs, big issues are a nuisance to the Republicans." He counseled Candidate Smith to discard the vague phrases urged upon him by his advisers and speak out on Prohibition. The Smith advisers promptly informed the public that the best way to oppose Prohibition...
...Club, in Cleveland. He called Harry M. Daugherty a "political leper," Andrew W. Mellon a "betrayer," Calvin Coolidge, "a man about whom I would not say he knew anything unless I knew he knew." Then Senator Reed remarked that "Will Hays, Tsar of the Movies, deceived the Senate Teapot Dome Committee," and suggested that Mr. Hays be replaced by Fatty Arbuckle...
Prosecution. What the Government had to prove was that Oilman Sinclair had conspired with Albert Bacon Fall, Secretary of the Interior in the Harding Cabinet, to lease the Teapot Dome oil reserve fraudulently in 1922. The Government proceeded to show that Fall avoided other bids for the lease until after Sinclair's lease was secretly signed; that Sinclair later gave Fall $304,000 in cash and Liberty Bonds, $233,000 being for a one-third interest in Fall's ranch, for which Sinclair never took a receipt. The Government was prepared to show that the Fall ranch...
...thus rested almost entirely upon the testimony of Captain John K. Robison, U. S. N. retired. Robison stated that he, as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Engineering in 1921 had made the suggestion which led Secretary of the Navy Denby to have President Harding transfer Teapot Dome to the Interior Department. It was his idea and Secretary Denby's he said, to have Fall lease the oil reserve to some company which would build tanks, and store oil for the Navy. Also, there would be royalties. Secrecy was urged because in 1921, the Navy Department...
That a more telling argument than any had been Lawyer Littleton's to the effect that a man like Sinclair, if he were going in for a conspiracy, would not have stopped at the trifling cost of $304,000; and Fall, if he were selling Teapot Dome, could easily have gotten more than a quartermillion...