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...been slow to punish what it forbade. Not until the 1920s was the first Cabinet-level official convicted of bribery (former Interior Secretary Albert Fall in the Teapot Dome scandal). By the time of Watergate, the anticorruption ethic was so extensive that a number of Nixon officials ended up in jail after hush money was offered to the burglars. Noonan even suggests that the campaign against corruption may now conflict with other standards. Of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which made it a crime for companies to bribe officials abroad, Noonan remarks that "no such law had ever...
...Teapot Dome scandal of 1923, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty were charged with crimes after leaving office. So were three Nixon Administration officials in the Watergate period: Attorney General John Mitchell, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans...
...behind it," Amin Jan recalls. "The women and children were weeping." Those who owned trucks loaded them high with blankets, heirloom carpets, anything they could salvage from their bomb-shattered homes; others piled precious possessions on top of mules and camels or carried what they could: a lantern, a teapot, a generations-old copy of the Koran. While it was dark, they traveled fast along the rough mountain roads; during the day, when planes or helicopters reappeared in the skies, the refugees took shelter amid the rocks and trees...
...west to east in 1969, and his record of 70.7 days still stands. But his Ridiculously Small Boat celebrity vanished in only two weeks, when Bill Dunlop, 42, a former truck driver from Mechanic Falls, Me., bobbed into the harbor at Falmouth, England, in Wind's Will, a teapot just over 9 ft. long that he had sailed from Portland. The two became friends, but McClean was not having second best; he told Dunlop that he would chain-saw several inches from Giltspur and sail the Atlantic again...
...policy" since the Freshman Week calendar lists religious events, including a Hillel brunch, and a gathering for international students (Moses last week admitted to student protesters that this event possibly should not be included in the calendar.) Taken against this backdrop of inconsistency, the bureaucratic tempest in a teapot is even more absurd. And while Moses' intractability may improve his standing in the administration, it strongly erodes his relationship with the students his office is meant to serve...