Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Harding had to think about Oil instead of drawing to a straight flush. Sinclair and another big oilman, Edward L. Doheny from the Pacific Coast, an old friend of Fall's, were anxious for some leases on the naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, Calif., and the Teapot Dome in Natrona County, Wyo. To accommodate them, Secretary Fall and Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, prepared an executive order, transferring these reserves from the Navy to the Department of the Interior. President Harding was badly worried, but he signed the orders. Then Fall signed the leases. "Well...
...Presumably acting on orders from President Coolidge, the Department of Justice began an investigation of Sinclair's lease in the Salt Creek oilfields, adjacent to Teapot Dome. This lease, awarded on a royalty basis to Sinclair by Fall in 1922, was renewed last February by Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work, who explained to the Senate Public Lands Committee that it was "a good one for the Government...
...special prosecutors, was there, too, to cross-examine the witness. One of the first things Mr. Fall told was that the late J. W. Zevely, Sinclair's personal attorney and the man for whom he named his famed racehorse "Zev", conducted all the early negotiations for the Teapot lease. Then Sinclair went with Zevely to Fall's office (according to Fall) and protested he would lose money the way the lease was drawn. In the end he signed it "reluctantly...
...departure of Sinclair's lawyers for El Paso to take Fall's deposition for the defense. The gist of the Fall statement was expected to be the old story that it was Edwin Denby, the Harding Navy Secretary and not Fall who persuaded President Harding to transfer Teapot Dome from the Navy to the Interior Department, a transfer to which Fall says he assented "reluctantly and only at the instance of the President...
Higher and higher has led the trail of corruption originating in the Senatorial investigation into the Teapot Dome scandal. As Professor Hart pointed out in his interview in yesterday's Crimson, the collaboration of prominent men was necessary to the scheme, and the searchers finally reached the summit when Senator Nye, chairman of the committee, announced that the estate of the late Warren G. Harding would be investigated for traces of the missing Continental Oil Company bonds which were part of Sinclair's contribution to the campaign fund. The fact that a president of the United States should be suspected...