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...Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, Sinclair went to jail for six months for contempt of court and the Senate. Doheny was acquitted of charges to defraud the Government and sold control of his Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. holdings to Standard of Indiana. The ironic aftermath: instead of producing 130 million bbl. as the U.S. had predicted, Teapot Dome depleted itself after...
...TEAPOT DOME OIL LANDS in Wyoming, where scandal over Government giveaway of leases blighted Harding Administration in 1920s, will be opened to private drilling. Navy is asking bids for drilling of eight wells, will pay costs plus share of profits to driller and then sell the oil by competitive bidding...
...such a hurry to be on his way that he left the university without bothering to pick up his Phi Beta Kappa key. In 1922, after a bicycling trip through Europe, he went confidently to work as a $15-a-week cub on the Chicago Daily News. When the Teapot Dome scandal broke in 1924, he landed one of his first out-of-town assignments by observing that none of the news stones said what Teapot Dome looked like. In a breathless Inside report from Wyoming that made Best News Stories of 1924 and foreshadowed a familiar Guntheresque ploy...
...then, the classic tempest in a teapot. It might happen again; Brandeis and Northeastern have severed athletic relations because someone was blocked too hard on a kickoff. All we can hope for is that today's encounter will be played in the cleanest fashion and under the rules of sportmanship that all gentlemen recognize. If they beat us too badly though, we can always drop them and play Marlboro instead
WROTE Harvard Law Professor Frankfurter in the New Republic in 1924, while the Teapot Dome scandal and the skulduggery of Attorney General Harry Daugherty were being revealed: "Undoubtedly, the names of people who have done nothing criminal or wrong, or nothing even offending taste perhaps, have been mentioned in connection with these investigations . . . But where so much that the Department of Justice was doing under Daugherty was not innocent, it is highly important that even innocent transactions in the general field of fraud and suspicion be explained in order to separate the sheep from the goats. The question...