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...wrong." But something was wrong. Harry Truman came away from the Florida sunshine into the blackest cloud of murk that has risen over Washington in many a year. Day after day, revelations of corruption in his Administration are piling up, amid indications that the scandals may grow to outstrip Teapot Dome. In political urgency, the graft scandals overshadow the Korean truce talks and the confused debate over U.S. mobilization...
...Emett trains (rechristened "Far Tottering and Oyster Creek"), past weird scenery erected along the line: flat-footed cows, crooked lampposts hung with lobster pots. One train had a candy-striped engine with a balloon-shaped boiler and an elegant, winged smokestack; the other had spidery wheels, a teapot boiler and potted pink geraniums on top. Midgets dressed up as policemen were hired the first week to direct the delighted crowds which flocked about Britain's own Toonerville Trolley...
...find it, but some 25 percent disappear between freshman and senior classes to join coed schools. But for those who remain, no matter how diversified the academic interests, tradition and honor leave their mark. Wellesley will continue, for many generations to come, to be a minor tempest behind the Teapot of American society
When aging Harry F. Sinclair stepped out of the presidency of the Sinclair Oil Corp. in early 1949, his company was held in small esteem on Wall Street. Over it still hovered some of the onus of Harry Sinclair's jailing for contempt in the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the '20s. And in its later years the company seemed to have developed hardening of the corporate arteries. It lagged behind in expanding its production and oil reserves...
...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...