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...Washington last week broad-browed U. S. Supreme Court Justice Owen Josephus Roberts (Teapot Dome prosecutor) ruled finally as umpire on the Black Tom and Kingsland cases, threw out the lemon juice evidence, vindicated Germany once & for all, thus saved the Fatherland more than $40,000,000 in U. S. claims. Justice Roberts, whose hand shook as he read his verdict, said that some of the evidence against Germany seemed to have been "fraudulently prepared...
That he "hijacked and blackmailed Harry Sinclair and his associates of $250,000 in 1924 on a threat that he would expose their Teapot Dome activities...
Blacknier, fugitive from the Teapot Dome oil scandal...
Between the University of Southern California and the family of famed Oilman Edward Laurence ("Teapot Dome") Doheny there has been close financial and sentimental association. Busy prospecting for gold in his youth, Oilman Doheny had no time to go beyond high school. But his son Edward Laurence Jr. ("Ned") went to U. S. C., was graduated in 1916. After serving as lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, he became a member of the University alumni council, later a University trustee. In February 1929 "Ned" Doheny, 36, was shot by his mad secretary, Robert Plunkett, who then killed himself. A great...
British and Irish opinion was further provoked last week by a tempest in the teapot of Irish Free State Governor Gen eral James McNeill, appointed by George V but obliged to act on the Free State Cabinet's advice. Similarly His Majesty is obliged to act upon the British Cabinet's advice, would never think of doing otherwise. But last week Governor Gen eral James McNeill flatly disregarded the advice of the Free State Cabinet that he keep to himself certain complaints which he desired to make...