Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alert." Next President Roosevelt appointed a five-man board to investigate the Pearl Harbor debacle. To head the board he named Owen Josephus Roberts, 66, Associate Supreme Court Justice, last survivor of the Old Court, a broad-shouldered, broad-gauge jurist who first won national fame by his Teapot Dome prosecution...
...Daugherty maneuvered his longtime crony Warren Gamaliel Harding to the Republican nomination as a compromise candidate, got the Attorney Generalship as his reward. A year later his impeachment was sought on 14 charges of malfeasance but the move fell through in the House. A Senate committee prying into the "Teapot Dome" oil scandal suspected his involvement; it was unable to prove it. Shortly afterward he resigned under pressure. He was indicted for graft involving the Alien Property Custodian but was not convicted. For the rest of his life he labored to clear his name. He died with his work unfinished...
...facts in a bribery case that his paper figured was too hot to handle. He took his story to the PD, was hired, and Johns, then an editorial writer, promptly had it printed. Bovard stayed on to become nationally celebrated for his successful six-year struggle to crack the Teapot Dome scandal...
...Emory Roy Buckner, 63, member of the potent Manhattan law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, one of the great trial lawyers of his time, who as U. S. District Attorney for southern New York during Prohibition years gained fame by padlocking Manhattan speakeasies, prosecuting former Attorney General Harry (Teapot Dome) Daugherty, sending Earl (Vanities) Carroll to Atlanta for giving false testimony to a Federal grand jury about publicly tubbing a show girl in champagne; after brief illness; in Manhattan...
...onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall lay in an Albuquerque hospital recovering from pneumonia, the famed 1,000,000-acre Three Rivers Ranch in New Mexico, on which Secretary Fall said he spent the $100,000 bribe which he took from Oilman Edward L. Doheny in the Teapot Dome scandal, was sold for a dude ranch...