Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When Montana first sent Burton Kendall Wheeler to the U. S. Senate (in 1922), the U. S. was trying hard to forget World War I. Mr. Wheeler's own Senatorial concerns were domestic: helping blow the lid off Teapot Dome, plugging for silverite legislation, building his reputation as an able, fighting Liberal. Among many things he was against were big armaments. But he gave little heed to foreign affairs, did not trouble to label himself an Isolationist when that word still had punch...
...Wheeler captured the U. S. Senate seat he has since retained. Bounding Burt was hot stuff from the start. In late 1923, as his colleague Walsh lifted the lid of the G. 0. P.'s Teapot Dome, Senator Wheeler began to pry into the man who made Warren G. Harding Pres ident : Attorney General Harry Daugherty. Daugherty's FBI agents toothcombed Montana for Wheeler dirt; finding none, they made some, concocted a charge that Wheeler had used his Senatorial influence to obtain illegal oil leases for a client. After waiting a year for the case to come...
Nondescript Utterance. In the Dominion last week a teapot tempest blew up from Ontario as the Attorney General of this Province, politically inexperienced Gordon Daniel Conant, 65, who has been in public life less than three years, again cackled on his favorite theme of British-U. S.-solidarity-to-save-the-world...
...drank himself into a legend. At his parties he scorned champagne for alternate sips of vodka and hot water. One morning at breakfast a friend offered him sugar and milk to put into a cup which he had just filled from a teapot. "What!" exclaimed the Yuvaraja, "in whiskey...
...Publisher Villard had opposed U. S. entry into the war, and in The Nation he set out to blast imperialism, war, monopoly, reaction. The Nation campaigned to have U. S. troops recalled from Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua, denounced the Treaty of Versailles, fulminated against lynching, helped to uncover the Teapot Dome oil scandals...