Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S thanks to Readers Meenk, Luescher and Josephy for having reduced to an absurdity this Fascist-Communist teapot tempest. Facts...
There will be those to maintain that this campaign is a tempest in a teapot, that the problem in reality is non-existent. Let them explain away the incontrovertible evidence that tonight throughout the land women's colleges are having their most important social functions. In the face of this temptation, it cannot be overemphasized that man has a duty to his gender in these tempestuous days. Let him not forget who pays for the corsages when the feminine knee is bent and the roughed lips are popping the question. Let him not forget who pays for the theatre tickets...
...condemn all such investigations. Far from it! But, let the Press and the public recall how many Senators have conducted as honest, fair, searching inquiries into the truth as, for example, the late Senator Walsh in the famous Teapot Dome scandal! . . . JOHN B. LUCRE Atlanta...
...none of its effectiveness when concealed beneath semi-modern League streamlining. The U. S. was certainly on its way back, despite the Government (Republican version), or ahead, because of the Government (Democratic version). In other words, times were better and a third-year tempest was seething in the national teapot, Recovery or no, Reform or no: and for the first time since 1931 the rumblings at home were more political than economic. [Franklin Roosevelt] in common with all his predecessors was coming down with third-year trouble. . . . Until the courts and the people might decide to accept his reforms Franklin...
...shoulder is dressy, hard-boiled Paul Y. Anderson, able correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Anderson's whole career has been spent digging up scandals, until today he sees public affairs almost entirely through a haze of suspicions. He attached himself to Senator Walsh in the original Teapot Dome investigation, later scribbled two questions on a piece of paper and handed it to that inquisitor. For refusing to answer those two questions Chairman Robert W. Stewart of Standard Oil of Indiana was tried for contempt of the Senate, and although acquitted, lost his job with the Rockefellers (TIME, March...