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...Bovard, or to the present trio of top men: cocky, trigger-tempered Ralph Coghlan, editorial-page chief; moose-tall, desk-pounding Managing Editor Benjamin Harrison Reese; Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick. They were, indeed, all on the team that carried through the P-D's most successful crusades: the Teapot Dome exposure, the impeachment of Federal Judge English, the Union Electric Co. slush-fund scandal, the 1936 registration frauds. But Pulitzer has backed them, ignoring the protests of his country-club friends...
John Collier became executive secretary of the American Indian Defense Association in 1923 and promptly tackled Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, who was pushing hard for legislation to make the Indians Christians and also to open all of their lands to squatters. Fall's laws never passed, and Collier hoped for better times under President Herbert Hoover. But in John Collier's bitter summary, "Hoover didn't give a damn about the Indians either." New Deal for Redskins. By the time the New Deal had come to Washington, Collier was the No.11...
Died. Earle Westwood Sinclair, 70, longtime president of Sinclair Oil Refining Co.; after a heart attack; in Manhattan. While his partner-brother, dashing Harry Sinclair (see above), was bogged down with the trials and tribulations of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, he quietly managed and built their business into one of the world's great oil empires...
...Niffnaw, a U.S. colloquialism, means a teapot-tempest. It may possibly be derived from the old Scottish dialect word niffnaff, meaning "trifle " example (from a poem by Scottish Poet Allan Ramsay...
...five long years rumors of China's imminent collapse have been thick as tea leaves on the bottom of a drained teapot. Last week they were thicker than ever. China's ragged army of rifleman and grenade-throwers had fought a critical campaign under appalling hardships (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Washington gossips croaked the news that Vice President Henry Wallace brought Franklin Roosevelt from Chungking: China's situation is grave, even desperate. And last week neutral Russia, breaking its long reticence about the Sino-Japanese war, treated its exhausted neighbor to a stroke of the bear...