Word: domes
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...only other former Cabinet members ever indicted for a crime were Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall and Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, both because of Teapot Dome...
Mitchell and Stans became the first former Cabinet officials accused of a crime since the Teapot Dome oilfield-leasing scandal of 50 years ago.* They stand charged with being so eager to secure campaign contributions for the reelection of President Nixon that they used their great influence to help a financier, Robert L. Vesco, in his deep troubles with the Government. Then they tried repeatedly to conceal the fact that Vesco had contributed $200,000 in cash to the Nixon re-election committee (see box page...
...Watergate two weeks ago, he assured the nation that "both our great parties have been guilty of such tactics ... the campaign excesses have occurred on all sides." Last week Vice President Agnew concurred. This is not the first time that governments have been linked to scandals, from Teapot Dome on down, said Agnew...
Corruption certainly exists, but it is important to make distinctions-between larger and lesser transgressions, between various motives and aims. The big city machines, forever symbolized by Boss Tweed, were rotten, but some also performed necessary social functions. The Teapot Dome affair of Harding's Administration, the freezer and coat giveaways of the Truman and Eisenhower eras, were corrupt acts based on organized greed, some massive, some relatively modest. Watergate is a far greater malignancy. These conspirators wanted to short-circuit the electoral and judicial processes, to rewrite the book on national security, to manipulate the standards of ethics...
...Joseph's Oratory in Montreal looks like Cecil B. DeMille's idea of a cathedral. Enthroned on Mount Royal, the city's highest hill, the oratory is bigger than Notre Dame, its dome only slightly smaller than St. Peter's. It took six master architects 52 years-from 1915 to 1967-to erect, and among its accouterments are the carillon built for the Eiffel Tower, one of the world's largest organs, two wax museums, three banks of escalators, acres of free parking and a restaurant supervised by a full-time French chef...