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...Teapot Tempest. There were, in the South and elsewhere, editors who resisted the call to arms, pointing out instead that Ike's and Monty's hindsights on Gettys burg only reflect a verdict long accepted by the U.S. Army and most historians: it was Lee's worst-fought battle. Columnist Pie Dufour observed in the New Orleans States: "These armchair generals are on solid ground, believe it or not." And the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer argued that Lee's own view of his performance at Gettysburg was at variance with the "Southern Oratory" used...
...north and west at week's end, there was no prospect that it would be nearly as conclusive as the not altogether conclusive first one. That was the fun of the fight. It was, as North Carolina's Durham Herald noted, "one of those tempests in a teapot in which Americans delight to engage. It gives them a chance to argue without paving to decide, to debate without some vital result depending on the outcome...
...hunting) into a successful string of wildcat oil wells, lost a wad (1914-15) trying to establish a third major baseball league, by 1916 founded the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., bought a string of racehorses (his Zev won the 1923 Kentucky Derby), in 1922 leased the Navy's Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming from Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall; in Pasadena, Calif. Buoyant Harry Sinclair survived when Teapot Dome blew up in a scandal (he was acquitted in 1928 of conspiracy with Fall, served six and a half months for refusing to answer Senate investigators, having his jurors...
...Kefauver received telegrams of welcome from De Sapio and Governor Harriman, McGrath cooled down, accepted the explanation of local leaders: they were busy 24 hours a day getting voters registered for the election, could not spare time even to accompany their candidate. Said McGrath: "Merely a tempest in a teapot. Forget all about...
...should be as subject to attack for Teapot Dome as Adlai is held responsible for Harry's alleged foibles...