Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long odds in 1923. Washington reporters came to his aid - and brought the country with them. In fact, some of the questions that he used to uncover Harry Sinclair's operations were passed up to him on bits of paper by reporters. The rest is the history of Teapot Dome...
Sometimes, aided by TIME Correspondents from other cities, he tied the testimony to other evidence on country-wide crime organizations. He outlined the legal steps needed to nail down perjury, contempt and deportation charges. He also sketched from memory the sordid story of Teapot Dome and other great congressional investigations from the past...
...earlier novels (Black Narcissus, A Candle for St. Jude) may expect, the Godden brew is not much more than cambric tea, and though its prose has a refreshing bouquet and its flavor of idyl is cut by lemon slices of irony, the book is still a Tempest in a teapot. Author Godden gracefully recognizes the fact by calling her novel not a Tempest but A Breath...
Under him, the bureau became one of the best in Washington. Besides Ross, it included crusading Paul Y. Anderson (who won the Pulitzer Prize for articles exposing the Teapot Dome scandal), Raymond P. ("Pete") Brandt, now head of the P-D bureau, and Marquis Childs...
...patrolman he and his buddies had shaken down nightclubs and gin mills for allowing them to stay open after hours. Now & then, he sprinkled in a big name or two. At one point he recalled hearing that a wealthy oilman named Sinclair (presumably Harry Sinclair of Teapot Dome notoriety) had lost $800,000 in two nights at the Golden Shores gambling club, and had later settled the debt...