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...condemn all such investigations. Far from it! But, let the Press and the public recall how many Senators have conducted as honest, fair, searching inquiries into the truth as, for example, the late Senator Walsh in the famous Teapot Dome scandal! . . . JOHN B. LUCRE Atlanta...
...none of its effectiveness when concealed beneath semi-modern League streamlining. The U. S. was certainly on its way back, despite the Government (Republican version), or ahead, because of the Government (Democratic version). In other words, times were better and a third-year tempest was seething in the national teapot, Recovery or no, Reform or no: and for the first time since 1931 the rumblings at home were more political than economic. [Franklin Roosevelt] in common with all his predecessors was coming down with third-year trouble. . . . Until the courts and the people might decide to accept his reforms Franklin...
...shoulder is dressy, hard-boiled Paul Y. Anderson, able correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Anderson's whole career has been spent digging up scandals, until today he sees public affairs almost entirely through a haze of suspicions. He attached himself to Senator Walsh in the original Teapot Dome investigation, later scribbled two questions on a piece of paper and handed it to that inquisitor. For refusing to answer those two questions Chairman Robert W. Stewart of Standard Oil of Indiana was tried for contempt of the Senate, and although acquitted, lost his job with the Rockefellers (TIME, March...
Moldy Chestnuts Sirs: In TIME, July 15, relative to the political tempest in a teapot in the Virgin Islands, you say: ''Prohibition had ruined the Islanders- by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum." This is one of the several moldy chestnuts over which every weekending special correspondent who ever visited these Islands smacks his lips, totally ignorant that the kernel carries within it a crawly worm of error. He has read what the next preceding correspondent said and he repeats it to show what a thorough study he has made of the economic conditions...
...might be the leader whom Republicans desired. Was he not, they asked, only 60, a good age for a candidate? Had this Philadelphia lawyer not received the cachet of approval from Presidents Coolidge and Hoover? Had he not struck up a fine friendship with the Press while prosecuting the Teapot Dome oil cases? Had he not voted with the Supreme Court's liberals in nine out of 13 5-to-4 decisions, voted with the conservatives the four remaining times? A sound political balance. Republicans told one another, a candidate who should be kept in mind...