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Fame, unsought and perhaps unwelcome, has come to two of the naval petroleum reserves?Teapot Dome and Elk Hills, immortally linked with Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny. These reserves may well be envious of their younger brother, reserve No. 4, which is just about to be explored. Last week a telegram reached the Department of the Interior. It stated that Dr. Philip S. Smith of the Geological Survey had just left Nenana, on the Alaskan Railway, with a dozen men and 140 Eskimo dogs, going out into the unknown...
...seems obvious that despite the great to-do being made on the Teapot Dome affair, taxation will be a political issue of first magnitude next Fall. Most business men are now wishing that the election were over, the political back-biting over; that the opportunity were presented to readjust our taxes calmly and scientifically, without political interference...
...return of Harry .F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, from Europe. To only two questions of reporters did he return positive answers. He said that politics had entered into the investigation and that he had put $45,000,000 into the development of Teapot Dome. Asked about the rumor that there was a $1,000,000 oil slush fund in Washington, he answered: "I haven't heard about that. How much am I supposed to have furnished...
...January while the Secretary was at Palm Beach on vacation, he had encountered Mr. McLean on the golf course. Later he had called on the McLeans and had met Mr. Fall who was visiting them. They had talked about the Volstead Act, golf, the weather, the Mellon tax plan. Teapot Dome, not then such a notorious episode, had been only touched on. ¶ Washington bankers testified before the committee that Mr. McLean had not on deposit at that time the $100,000 which he declared he had offered to lend Senator Fall...
...Senator La Follette, who started the present investigation many months ago, offered a resolution for an inquiry into Naval Coal Reserves in Alaska, which it was alleged had been improperly leased, "parallel to the Teapot Dome affair...