Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those promises: Some of Bonfils' early land deals were crooked. Big winners in his lottery were confederates. He blackmailed Denver merchants into buying his Post coal. He was horsewhipped into a hospital by a Denver husband. He took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal. And the elaborate house in which "Bon" Bonfils died was the object of particularly horrid whispers-that Bonfils got it extremely cheap from a man who feared publicity...
...Professor & Mrs. George Barbour; that Lady Whyte, at dinner, had worn a red evening dress. Sir Frederick's ideas on England's future or on any other world problem remained sacred to 160 members of the local English-Speaking Union, whose guest he was. Thence arose a teapot-tempest between the Cincinnati Press and Cincinnati socialites...
...Washington last week broad-browed U. S. Supreme Court Justice Owen Josephus Roberts (Teapot Dome prosecutor) ruled finally as umpire on the Black Tom and Kingsland cases, threw out the lemon juice evidence, vindicated Germany once & for all, thus saved the Fatherland more than $40,000,000 in U. S. claims. Justice Roberts, whose hand shook as he read his verdict, said that some of the evidence against Germany seemed to have been "fraudulently prepared...
That he "hijacked and blackmailed Harry Sinclair and his associates of $250,000 in 1924 on a threat that he would expose their Teapot Dome activities...
Blacknier, fugitive from the Teapot Dome oil scandal...