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Lawyer Roberts, with Ohio's onetime Senator Atlee Pomerene, was special Government counsel to prosecute the Oil Scandals. Appointed by President Coolidge in 1924, confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 68-to-8, he succeeded in voiding the Teapot Dome and the Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases as fraudulent, convicted Albert Bacon Fall of taking a $100,000 bribe from Edward Laurence Doheny. Important witnesses became fugitives in Europe. He failed to convict Doheny or Harry Ford Sinclair of conspiracy, though he did send Sinclair to jail for contempt of court. He was a harddriving, hard-working...
...Joseph Maas, the attack on the Post Office Department's leasing system was carried forward in the Senate by North Dakota's Senator Nye and Wisconsin's Senator Elaine. Exclaimed Senator Nye: "The story at St. Paul smells to high Heaven. ... It is a story that possibly rivals the Teapot Dome and other naval oil reserve leases...
...that the heat treatment of tobaccos is an exclusive process with any single manufacturer. . . . Whether or not a manufacturer . . . attaches a contrivance to his heat-treating machines to catch . . . the vapors . . . can have no more effect toward improving the tobacco than your catching . . . the vapors that come from your teapot would have toward improving...
...Schacht, having upset the applecart, set about picking up the apples. Within 24 hours he announced that he (i.e., the Reichsbank) would supply the needed cash. The political neck of Optimist Hilferding seemed saved and the whole affair might have passed off as a teapot-tempest, except for the famed Berliner Tageblatt whose editor announced that he possessed the inside story, upset the apples again...
...Josephus Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special U. S. counsel, conducted the prosecution before Justice William Hitz. Only novelty: they managed to introduce the illuminating fact that Fall, in a parallel case, had received some $269,000 in Liberty bonds from Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair who in return received the Teapot Dome lease...