Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mal S. Daugherty, 86, smalltown banker and political poohbah, one of the last surviving figures in the Teapot Dome scandal; after a stroke; in Washington Court House, Ohio. Brother of Harding's Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Mai refused to open his books to the Senate in 1924 (he was suspected of having part of the payoff funds on deposit), became a pariah in his own town after his conviction for misusing bank funds...
...Edward L. Doheny, widow of one of the principals in the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the 20s, agreed to sell her one-fourth interest in California's Coalinga Nose, Pleasant Valley and Guijarral Hills oilfields. Price: $43 million. Buyer: Tide Water Associated...
...teapot tempest? One nervous Delhi churchman said: "It is a symptom of a subtle attempt to put Mahatma Gandhi-for whom, mind you, I have the greatest respect-on the same pedestal as our Lord Jesus Christ...
Last week, the university filled Harrison's place with a second public figure-former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, 73. He had graduated from the Pennsylvania law school summa cum laude in 1898, taught on its faculty until 1918, won fame as a prosecutor during the Teapot Dome scandals. On Hoover's Supreme Court, he had found himself a liberal dissenter; on Roosevelt's, the most outspoken of the conservatives. Since retirement, he has spent much of his time plugging for Clarence Streit's world federation. A genial, scholarly man, who relaxes by reading...
Temper & Trash. The man who wrote the copy and stirred up the teapot tempest is smart, free-speaking Elliott White Springs, 51, president of South Carolina's Springs Mills (and of seven other textile companies, three banks and a railroad), and an old hand at stirring up excitement...