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...Dawes, having filled their engagement at Denver, went to Cheyenne (scene of the recent Teapot Dome oil suit) and took part in many astounding events: Mr. Dawes acted as director pro tern, in the filming of a Western picture, The Pony Express (James Cruze and Betty Compson). He reviewed a Frontier Days parade, was made a member of a Sioux tribe, abandoning his regular pipe for one two feet long with eagle feathers, was christened "Great White Father No. 2" (at the same function, Governess Ross was made "Princess Nellie Taylor"). He entertained a banjo-accordion-saxophone-violin orchestra...
...evidence clearly shows that the negotiations preceding the execution of the lease (on the Teapot reserve) were actively, earnestly and completely participated in, if not dominated by, the Secretary of the Navy and his designated representative of that department, Admiral [J. K.] Robison...
...with it the temporary rank of Rear Admiral. Last year, he was recommended for the permanent rank of Rear Admiral. The President did not nominate him to the Senate for the rank, however. The reason was that it was he who, acting for Secretary Denby, had O.K.'d the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases to Sinclair and Doheny (see OIL). It was presumed that the President withheld his, name awaiting the outcome of the oil investigations. Since then, the judge who decided the Doheny case decided that Admiral Robison was misguided, but entirely blameless. The judge who decided...
Less than three months after he had taken the case under advisement, Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy of Cheyenne, Wyo., rendered a decision. The case was the suit of the U. S. to cancel the lease of Naval Oil reserve No. 3 (known as Teapot Dome) to Harry F. Sinclair's oil interests. The decision was that the lease should stand...
...your issue of May 25, Page 2, in which I find this sentence (speaking of Senator Spencer) : "The Nation remembered him as an irreconcilable opponent of Woodrow Wilson, as chief defender of Truman H. Newberry, who was eventually driven from the Senate, as a leading apologist for the Teapot Dome Lease." Without assuming to discuss with you whether or not this article is libelous, I challenge your attention to the fact that it is grossly inaccurate: in fact, it is absolutely untrue. I had the honor of representing Senator Newberry professionally at the Grand Rapids trial, before the Supreme Court...