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...congressional power to investigate were trying to bore a hole in the boat to let the water out. Since they were first borrowed from the British Parliament, congressional investigations had proved to be a useful weapon. A Senate committee headed by Tom Walsh had uncovered the scandal brewed in Teapot Dome. Out of the Pecora investigation of Wall Street had come the Securities and Exchange Commission; out of the Senate War Investigating Committee had come the exposure of war-profiteering Representative Andy...
...Edward L. Doheny III (whose grandfather-in-law was Oilman Doheny of Teapot Dome fame) was out a $3,000 bracelet-strayed or stolen, she didn't know which. Police looked for a clean, well-lighted bauble prinked with 41 diamonds, 113 pearls...
Last week, "Steamboat" Johnson sounded again. The embargo would go on this week unless Canada, 1,750 cars above its quota, got into line. "We need those cars," said he, "and, damn it we're going to get 'em." That carried the teapot tempest right into the Dominion Cabinet. It dug through piles of memoranda, stacks of statistics, sadly concluded that Canada's railroaders had failed to keep their word mainly because they could not bring themselves to return the cars empty. Get going, said the Cabinet and hang the expense...
...Nottingham, England, Thomas Albert Morley came home one night, manfully announced: "I'm boss from now on." Thereupon his wife 1) pushed him over a chair, 2) kicked him, 3) cut his arm with a knife, 4) cut him under the eye with a well-aimed teapot, 5) threatened to kill...
...immediate future would be against the background of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. To take a hard look at this smeary oil picture, the Senate committee has called in former Senator Burton K. Wheeler (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a skilled scandal snuffer who first won national attention while investigating Teapot Dome. Wheeler has not yet decided whether a fulldress investigation is warranted. But last week all signs pointed...