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...week, to two elderly and little-known "fraternizers among nations": Professor Doktor Ludwig Quidde of the University of Munich, 69; and Professor Ferdinand Buisson, 86, retired, onetime preceptor at the Sorbonne. When the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), which is charged with making the award, announced its decision, last week, a teapot-tempest of press indignation seethed...
Last week at Douglaston, Long Island, onetime farming community, now haven of commuters, a teapot which had simmered for many a long month finally boiled over. The simmering started in February when the vestry of Zion Episcopal Church asked the pastor, Rev. M. W. Black, to resign. In asking for the resignation the vestry offered Rev. Black 18 months pay if he would leave quietly, permanently, and at once. Rev. Black, married, father of three, quietly refused to leave, continued to occupy Zion's pulpit. In August the vestry, vexed, refused to pay Rev. Black further salary. Still...
...Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair was often a caller and overnight guest at the White House before the Teapot Dome oil lease was consummated. President Harding said: "Well, I guess there will be hell to pay but these fellows seem to know what they are doing...
First there was an oil lease. Then there was suspicion. Investigations followed suspicion. Suits, civil and criminal, followed investigation. Out of the civil suits came proven illegalities and the U. S. got back its "Teapot Dome" oil reserve in Natrona...
...Villain" Burns emerged when, as Chief of the Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice under Harry Micajah Daugherty (1921-24), he was quizzed by Senate investigators about the use of one of the Bureau's codes? in an alleged Teapot Dome crockery; about trying to get evidence to "smear" Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, one of the oil scandal investigators; and about an alleged conspiracy with Mr. Daugherty to permit illegal transport of Dempsey-Carpentier fight films. Nothing came of these investigation but "Villain" Burns resigned a few weeks after "Villain" Daugherty. The new Attorney General (Harlan...