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...merely a piece of bad manners, a manifestation of that anarchic individualism which prompts us instinctively to consult our own convenience before thinking of the public. We need to check it early. For eventually, if left to itself and gathering force with time, it leads straight to Teapot Dome. G. H. PALMER...
STANDING COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC LANDS AND SURVEYS TO INVESTIGATE NAVAL OIL LEASES (Teapot Dome Inquiry)-Senators Ladd (Chairman), Smoot, Stanfield, Norbeck, Bursum, Cameron, Spencer, Pittman, Jones (N. M.), Kendrick, Walsh (Mont.), Adams, Dill...
...Opera in America that a project such as you have started here has been attempted. You are starting right, for you are paying your way as you go. The history of opera companies that are managed under some scheme of subsidy or guarantee is a recital of failures. The Teapot Dome scandal of grand operadom was the Chicago Civic Opera Company in the days when Harold McCormick's millions were back of it. The extravagance was dreadful...
...from being a hybrid bud. She seems to range in age from eight to eighteen, according to the impulse of the moment. By turn she is petulant, frowsy, winning, pusillanimous, firm. But she fuses this all together with her indomitable histrionic spirit, and saves the part from being a teapot tempest of tears. Tom Nesbitt and Wallace Ford provide good shadows for the background, but the aunts are mere stalking horses...
...Teapot Dome scandal of grand operadom...