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Even before he got back to Washington. President Hoover was publicly interrogated about his Harding speech by Senator Thomas James Walsh, relentless Teapot Dome inquisitor. With an eye cocked on politics, Senator Walsh said...
Died. Frederick Lincoln Siddons, 66, Associate Justice since 1915 and dean of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, presiding justice in the trial of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for conspiracy in the Teapot Dome case (TIME. April 15, 1929); of acute indigestion and dilation of the heart; in Washington. British-born, he was a great-grandson of Actress Sarah Siddons, had been urged in his youth to go on the stage...
...great honor, has been loaned by his descendents. It is uncommon in that the 30 or more pieces are still intact, with the exception of a silver twoquart tankard, which is the exact replica of the one which is mentioned in his original inventory. Chafingdishes, candlesticks, salvers, porringers, a teapot, and a pair of salt-cellars complete the collection...
Henry Mason Day, jailed with Harry Ford Sinclair for contempt of court after the Teapot Dome oil investigation, was made a partner of Redmond & Co., Wall Street brokers...
...Interior as to the facts." The World replied: Of course not, because the man to whom such inquiry would surely be referred is Edward C. Finney, now the Department's solicitor, formerly (1921-29) Assistant Secretary, the man who saw nothing wrong when the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome scandals were in the making, the man most directly attacked by the Kelley charges. In 1928, Mr. Finney wrote the basic decision which Kelley protested as nullifying the "discovery" provision of the old mining laws and thereby validating countless paper claims of oil companies to shale lands. Mr. Finney...