Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First there was an oil lease. Then there was suspicion. Investigations followed suspicion. Suits, civil and criminal, followed investigation. Out of the civil suits came proven illegalities and the U. S. got back its "Teapot Dome" oil reserve in Natrona...
Statements. Albert Bacon Fall, ill with lung congestion, again called attention to "my integrity and the complete rectitude of my every action in connection with the Teapot Dome lease." He disavowed any connection with any "jury-hanging" plot. Nevertheless, it was discovered that one of his counsel, Lawyer Mark Thompson, had telephoned a friend of Mr. Fall's at the U. S. Department of Justice to "look up the record" of a colleague who was being sleuthed by the Burns...
...Villain" Burns emerged when, as Chief of the Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice under Harry Micajah Daugherty (1921-24), he was quizzed by Senate investigators about the use of one of the Bureau's codes? in an alleged Teapot Dome crockery; about trying to get evidence to "smear" Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, one of the oil scandal investigators; and about an alleged conspiracy with Mr. Daugherty to permit illegal transport of Dempsey-Carpentier fight films. Nothing came of these investigation but "Villain" Burns resigned a few weeks after "Villain" Daugherty. The new Attorney General (Harlan...
...twice for contempt of court. The libel was published in Magee's Albuquerque newspaper in exposures of state government corruption. Two pardons and a habeas corpus proceedings kept Mr. Magee at large. Magee's testimony of recent prosperity of Albert Bacon Fall was important evidence in the Teapot Dome scandal. Editor Magee is a fighting man, a bitter enemy of municipal, state or national corruption; calling a spade a spade and saying it with headlines. He is the new editor of the Oklahoma City News, Scripps Howard paper...
...People Should Be Happy." After the Teapot Dome verdict was announced last week, Lawyer Owen J. Roberts, colleague of onetime U. S. Senator Atlee Pomerene on the Government's legal staff, proclaimed: "The people of the United States . . . should be very happy this night...