Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Back to the Navy Department the President gave the naval oil reserves, revoking the Executive order issued by President Harding under which Secretary of the Interior Fall negotiated the illegal leases with Mr. Doheny and Mr. Sinclair. Only the Teapot Dome reserve remains to be returned...
Meanwhile, the Government's civil suit to recover the Teapot Dome oil reserves is now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, while the criminal suit charging Messrs. Sinclair and Fall with fraud is floundering through vexing preliminaries in a lower court...
...first time, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair appeared before a court fortnight ago to answer criminal charges arising from his leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. This was the result of U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision (TIME, Jan. 31) that witnesses who refused to answer proper and pertinent questions when summoned by Congress, may be punished for contempt. Mr. Sinclair had defied a Senate investigating committee in 1924. That was why he found himself in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. After a ten-day trial and acting under specific, simple instruction from Judge...
...present decision affects but one-half of the dual oil scandal. The other scandal was identical in most respects with the Doheny affair, except that in it the accused oil man is Harry F. Sinclair, and the leasehold in question is the Teapot Dome reserve. The exploiters have been restrained from further pumping until the civil case is decided by the Supreme Court in April. The criminal action against Messrs. Sinclair and Fall is still awaiting hearing in the lower courts...
...went home to Los Angeles, Calif., to gather round their Christmas tree. All criminal charges against the oil man and his son will probably be dropped. Not so, Mr. Fall-he remains in Washington, where he will soon go on criminal trial with Harry F. Sinclair because of the Teapot Dome oil leases. This trial will be dismally anticlimactic. For, how could Mr. Fall be a patriot at Elk Hills and a crook at Teapot Dome? Even the jurors were surprised, on hearing for the first time, that Mr. Fall had to face another criminal trial, that the Government...