Word: teapot
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...speech started a great hodud in Berlin. The newspapers rebuked Herr Furtwangler for making unnecessary, unfriendly remarks. The U. S. Embassy protested to the German Foreign Office. Last week steam from the Berlin teapot reached the U. S. The pet puppy metamor was headlined in the news, vigorously attacked. People who remembered the circumstances of Herr Furtwangler's New York Philharmonic engagement were inclined to dismiss his statement as a case of wounded vanity. His first U. S. concerts (1924-25) were brilliant. But after Toscanini came he let himself be heckled by adverse press criticism, lost his confidence...
...have attributed many ambitions to Harry Ford Sinclair: to clear his name of the Teapot Dome charges; to own another horse like his famed Zev; but mostly to build a billion-dollar oil company, an ambition worthy of his luck and judgment. Last week's report that Sinclair had succeeded, pictured a merger of the following...
Then came a break in Harry Sinclair's luck, a mistake in judgment. His Teapot Dome lease made in 1922 provoked a scandal which came to light in 1923. For five years a complicated battle raged in the courts. Harry Sinclair faced the bar of a Federal Court five times in those years, always smiling, debonair, sure of himself. His mood changed to dejection one night in May 1929 when he entered the District of Columbia jail to serve six and one-half months for contempt of the Senate and for jury shadowing, charges arising out of his long...
...Last week in France died James E. O'Neil, one of the key witnesses in the Teapot Dome suits who fled the U. S. in 1924, lived in affluent exile...
...Tribune reported rumors of Mr. Stimson's resignation, recalled that President Hoover had made Mr. Castle Undersecretary of State over Mr. Stimson's candidate for the job (Lawyer George Rublee of Washington, D. C. who drafted the London Naval Treaty). Declared President Hoover: "A tempest in a teapot...