Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than four years two oily half-brothers have intermittently engaged the attention of the U. S. public. Their names are Teapot Dome and Elk Hills and their resemblance is close enough to make them almost twins. Teapot Dome, however, resulted from a collaboration between onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair, oilman; Elk Hills proceeded from an association between Mr. Fall and Edward L. Doheny, also an oilman. So they have constituted two distinct, though parallel cases which in 1923 spread a sticky mess over the Harding Administration and cheered many Democrats...
...only the Teapot Dome portion of the oil investigation remained unsettled. The Government's civil suit to recover the property is still pending before the U. S. Supreme Court. The Government's criminal suit against Messrs. Fall and Sinclair is to be tried on Oct. 17 in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. When these two decisions should be reached, it appeared that the Oil Scandals would then become definitely a matter of history...
...predicament of a "person whose papers are not in order." Mr. Blackmer is urgently wanted in the U. S. as a witness in the coming (October) trial of Albert B. Fall, onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior, and Harry F. Sinclair, oil man, for conspiracy in the famed Teapot Dome scandal. Last May Mr. Blackmer refused to honor a subpoena to return and testify; the passport revocation followed, presumably with the intention of preventing Mr. Blackmer from leaving France for even more distant regions. Not but that he can get out of France without a passport, but he cannot...
...from the Mexia (oil) companies of Texas. It was claimed that the Canadian company, which made some millions of dollars on the transaction, was a "shadow" or "dummy," concern, and that Albert B. Fall received $230,000 in Liberty Bonds as his share of the profits. When the Teapot Dome case first came up before a Federal court in Cheyenne (TIME, March 23, 1925), Mr. Blackmer, along with one James E. O'Neil, president of the Prairie Oil Co., left for France. Mr. O'Neil has not been located since. Mr. Blackmer was found...
...knew so much about high explosives that he was often playful with them. One afternoon, while entertaining some friends at tea, he poured a few drops of liquid from the burner of the teapot into a vial, said: "Come out on the back porch and I will show you an experiment." Far out into the yard, he flung the vial. A terrific explosion ensued. In that vial, he explained to his friends, there was some nitro-glycerine...