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TIME reported the election of Charles Edwin Winter, Republican oilman, jurist, Shriner, rhymster, of Casper, Wyoming (near famed Teapot Dome and Salt...
Seldom has a more terrific tempest been brewed in any teapot than that which perturbed all Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete...
...from Wyoming, Charles Edwin Winter, used to be a Representative (1923-27). Before that he was an oilman and a judge. His home is at Casper, near famed Teapot Dome and Salt Creek. He is a Shriner. But Senators like Borah and Johnson have taught Washington to view with some circumspection any statesman from the great open spaces who has risen to Senatorial rank...
...Hills, Teapot Dome and Salt Creek are names written imperishably in oil. Attorney General Sargent was last week obliged to add Cat Creek to the list. Cat Creek is a U. S. oil field in Montana. In 1922, Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior, gave the Lewistown Oil and Refining Co. a contract to buy the Government's Cat Creek royalty oil. As in the case of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contract for Salt Creek, Wyo., oil,* Fall gave the Lewistown people an option to renew their contract after five years, although no such option...
...tempest in the Yale teapot has become a tempest in the editorial rooms of the Yale Daily News. Today's issue of the "oldest college daily" carries three communications from associate editors in which the News and individuals connected with it are arraigned for the "playing up" of non-college Republican news and the "playing down" of Democratic news. The paper also carries a reply to the communications from Fred A. Simmons, Jr., Boston, managing editor, the most interesting part of which is a post-script in which he says "the managing editor of the News doesn't give...