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...Sinclair, about your Teapot Dome lease, will you please tell the commmittee...
...Reporter Ray Tucker, wild & wooly go-getter after official malfeasance or social injustice, was never in better form. 'The days of Teapot Dome never compared with these," he reported. And "the question [of the man on the street] heard everywhere around the Capitol is, 'What chance have we got?' " Pitched to a sustained keynote of Wall Street wickedness. Tucker's stories were masterfully written and made exciting reading. Also in the World Telegram, Pinko Heywood Broun surpassed himself with cynical skits about the House of Morgan and its Friends in high places. Apropos the 1929 letter...
...Supreme Court. Organized Labor is still grateful to him for his efforts to exclude unions from the anti-trust laws He led the fight that ended only when Michigan's wealthy Truman Newberry resigned from the Senate seat he was accused of buying. His relentless investigation of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases finally put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars. He presided over the 103 ballots cast by warring Democrats in Madison Square Garden in 1924, presided again last June at Chicago. After the oil investigation had made him a headliner, Washington's Daisy Harriman took...
...those promises: Some of Bonfils' early land deals were crooked. Big winners in his lottery were confederates. He blackmailed Denver merchants into buying his Post coal. He was horsewhipped into a hospital by a Denver husband. He took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal. And the elaborate house in which "Bon" Bonfils died was the object of particularly horrid whispers-that Bonfils got it extremely cheap from a man who feared publicity...
...Professor & Mrs. George Barbour; that Lady Whyte, at dinner, had worn a red evening dress. Sir Frederick's ideas on England's future or on any other world problem remained sacred to 160 members of the local English-Speaking Union, whose guest he was. Thence arose a teapot-tempest between the Cincinnati Press and Cincinnati socialites...