Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to transfer the rich offshore oil lands from federal control back to state control. "That is just what the oil lobby wants," said Truman. "Talk about corruption. Talk about stealing from the people. That would be robbery in broad daylight-and on a colossal scale. It would make Teapot Dome look like small change . . . I intend to stand up and fight to protect the people's interest in this matter." Since a bill to return the Tidelands to the states was already on its way from Congress to the White House for signature, this seemed a clear signal...
...city room he sat with Tom O'Flaherty, a big Irishman with "a brisk sense of humor (always a heavy cross for a Communist)," and Fred Ellis, a blue-eyed sign painter from Illinois who did the Worker cartoons when Chambers had an idea (one idea: after Teapot Dome, Andy Mellon as September Morn in a pool...
...Tammany!", which showed a paunchy, string-tied figure labeled "G.O.P." raising his hands in horror at the very thought of Tammany Hall, while behind him stood an unsavory chorus of such figures as Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, Attorney General Harry Daugherty and other Republicans implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal. Next to the Depression itself, a Kirby cartoon ("Two Chickens in Every Garage") did as much as anything to defeat Herbert Hoover in 1932. After Repeal, which Kirby did as much as any man to bring about, he showed Mr. Dry being lugged off to the graveyard, mourned...
...Pentagon's first impulse was to throw the book at them. "A tempest in a teapot," snorted Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. But as the proportions of the trouble became apparent last week, Vandenberg flew out to Randolph for a first-hand checkup, ordered court martial proceedings dropped in the cases of two flyers...
...cleanup job that Harry Truman promised for his malodorous federal house loomed as one of Augean scope when Judge Thomas Murphy backed away from it last December. The President seemed to have in mind a formidable probe and prosecution, a Democratic version of the Republicans' famed Teapot Dome inquiry. Last week the job turned out to be far less heroic in proportions. It called for a special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson...