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...special counsel for the Government, took train from the Capital and reached Cheyenne. Harry F. Sinclair and his lawyers also went west. In the Federal District Court of Cheyenne, Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene asked a temporary injunction to restrain the Mammoth Oil Co. from drilling or operating wells on Teapot Dome. They alleged that the lease to the Mammoth Co. was illegal, 1) because it rested on an in-valid Executive Order of President Harding transferring control of the naval oil reserve to the Department of the Interior; 2) because it was executed without authority of law; 3) because...
...Federal District Court at Los Angeles, the special counsel for the Government obtained a temporary injunction on the Doheny companies to prevent them from operating their leases. The charges made were much the same as those of the Teapot Dome complaint. Rear Admiral Harry H. Rousseau and J. Crampton Anderson, President of the Pan-American Petroleum Co., were named joint receivers. In order to protect the Government's naval and oil interests as well as the interests of the lessee, the receivers were empowered to carry out the existing contracts, and to drill additional wells, if necessary to protect...
...tended to quash several ambitious dreams by minor politicians of coming noisily to the rescue of "the people" against "the monopoly interests." If the A. T. & T. Co. had stated its attitude more clearly at the start, much of the recent tempest in a teapot over the threatened "radio monopoly" might have been avoided...
Harry Payne Whitney, famed sportsman: "I filed papers with the New York Jockey Club claiming the name 'Teapot' for a two-year-old bay filly which will race on eastern tracks this season...
Others see the question differently. To Mr. Whalen it is : "Are the common people in danger?" to the Federal Trade Commission it is : "Has a violation of the Sherman anti-trust act been committed?" Congress, immersed in Teapot Dome and its byproducts, ignored the question...