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...could hardly imagine a teapot small enough for this tempest. Mutual understanding seems to be circumscribed by a menu card. Be it admitted that great and holy causes are at stake on both sides and that "all is fair in love and war"; yet Mars would hardly stoop to wield a bill of fare...
From a muddle of politics Senator Walshs voice rings forth demanding an investigation of the aluminum trust. Had the Montann Democrat not started the successful scent of Teapot Dome, one would be inclined to jeer at his snooping propensities. Among politicians, it is whispered that another sensational exposure will put Senator Walsh in line for the Democratic presidential nomination...
Last week J. K. Rpbison completed four years' service as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Engineering. In that post he had approved the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases. With his quitting the post of Chief of the Bureau of Engineering, he lost his temporary rank of Rear Admiral and reverted to his permanent rank of Captain. His application to retire with his temporary rank was denied by the President. He can never achieve the rank of Rear Admiral now, since he will be 55 in a few weeks and according to rule no one is given...
...Louis U. Su attorneys filed an appeal in the case of the U. S. v. The Mammoth Oil Co., et al.-the famous suit for the annulment of the Teapot Dome oil lease to Harry F. Sinclair. The suit tried in Cheyenne, Wyo., was decided against the Government by Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy (TIME, June...
...former years considerable maladministration of the public lands by the Department of the Interior has been charged. During the Taft administration Secretary of the Interior Ballinger found it convenient to resign. From then until "Teapot Dome" there was comparative pease. Now the Senate feels that a committee had best be sent out to scout for possible festering grievances, which might later embarrass the Administration. During the past fortnight the investigation (by the Senate Committee on Public Lands) got under...