Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Teapot Dome" explosion has changed all this, and now nobody wishes to claim connection with Mr. Doheny. The master of Pan-American Petroleum, however, has gone ahead with his naval reserve contract and built the oil storage tanks at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, despite the fact that the contract is now under attack and in fact in litigation. The tanks are ready, but just who will fill them has not been decided. Under the contract, Pan-American was to furnish 2,500,000 barrels of oil for this purpose. But because of court procedure, Pan-American need not go ahead with...
...There has been corruption before in American politics," Mr. Pell said, in speaking of the Teapot Dome Scandal, "but never has it been taken so complacently. President Coolidge has yet to express one word of indignation at those who betrayed his confidence and that of his predecessor. It is just that, that makes Calvin Coolidge impossible as a president, in the eyes of the thinking public. He talks little, and does nothing...
...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...
...Teapot Dome scandal of grand operadom...