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...months the Senate Committee on Public Lands has been delving in and out of the question of the leasing of Government oil reserves, especially that reserve in Wyoming generally known as Teapot Dome. Under the regime of Albert B. Fall as Secretary of the Interior that reserve was leased to the Sinclair Oil interests. There was much conflicting technical testimony about the wisdom of that lease?and some smoke was raised. It was not until last week, when an apparent contradiction in Mr. Fall's declarations was discovered, that the Senate burst into the full flame of oratory...
...Secretary of the Navy the sluice gates were apparently opened to unrestrained of the nation's resources by private interests ... The Teapot Dome scandal has its direct parallel in The Ballinger scandal which shook the Taft Administration to its foundation...
...makings of a small storm seem to be brewing in the Washington teapot. A small revolution is frittering about in Mexico (see FOREIGN AFFAIRS), and President Obregon asked whether he might buy some rifles and other munitions of war from Uncle...
...teapot tempest blown up by Dr. John Charles Van Dyke's Rembrandt heresy (TIME, Oct. 15) continued to rage. Developments...
...government is stirring up more of a tempest in its teapot than it has bargained for. Saxony is the center of an ultra-radical party, as antipathetic to the reactionaries as fire is to water. And with every rattle of the Monarchist sabre, the red flag is waved a little harder. If the violent Right should go to buffets with the violent left, the trembling Center would find the back of passive resistance in the Ruhr well-high broken...