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Albert Bacon Fall
Albert Bacon Fall 1861-1944, American cabinet official, b. Frankfort, Ky. He became a rancher in New Mexico and a political leader in that state. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1912, he served there until President Harding made him Secretary of the Interior in 1921. Fall was one of the chief figures... Read more
Warren Gamaliel Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding , 1865-1923, 29th President of the United States (1921-23), b. Blooming Grove (now Corsica), Ohio. After study (1879-82) at Ohio Central College, he moved with his family to Marion, Ohio, where he devoted himself to journalism. He bought the Marion Star, built up the newspa... Read more
Teapot Dome
Teapot Dome in U.S. history, oil reserve scandal that began during the administration of President Harding . In 1921, by executive order of the President, control of naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyo., and at Elk Hills, Calif., was transferred from the Navy Dept. to the Dept. of the Interior.... Read more
Owen Josephus Roberts
Owen Josephus Roberts 1875-1955, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1930-45), b. Philadelphia. After receiving (1898) his law degree from the Univ. of Pennsylvania, he practiced law in Philadelphia, taught (1898-1918) at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, and served as assistant district attorney... Read more
Harlan Fiske Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone 1872-1946, American jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (1941-46), b. Chesterfield, N.H. A graduate (1898) of Columbia Univ. law school, he was admitted (1899) to the bar, practiced law in New York City, and lectured at the Columbia law school, where he became profess... Read more
Pacific scandal
Pacific scandal 1873, a major event in Canadian political history. Charges were made in Parliament that the Conservative administration of Sir John A. Macdonald had accepted campaign funds from Sir Hugh Allan in return for a promise to award Allan's syndicate the contract to build the Canadian ... Read more
insider trading
insider trading stock market transactions made with knowledge of nonpublic information about corporate activity. In the United States, it has been illegal since 1934. The Securities and Exchange Commission regards it as unfair to investors who are not privy to such information. Several insider tr... Read more
Sadi Carnot
Sadi Carnot , 1837-94, French statesman, president of the Third Republic (1887-94); son of Hippolyte Carnot. As minister of public works (1880-85) and of finance (1886), he remained untainted by the financial scandals of the time. He succeeded Jules Grévy in the presidency; his tenure was dis... Read more
Sir Hugh Allan
Sir Hugh Allan 1810-82, Canadian financier and shipowner, b. Scotland. He emigrated to Canada in 1826, was employed by a large shipbuilding company in Montreal, and later founded the Allan Line of steamships. He was given the contract to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, but the Pacific scandal ... Read more
Eliza (Fowler) Haywood
Eliza (Fowler) Haywood 1693?-1756, English author. Separated from her husband, she supported herself and her two children by writing plays and novels. Two of her books, Utopia (1725) and The Court of Carmania (1727), scandalized well-known society figures, and earned her the disapproval of Pope... Read more

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Teapot Dome Scandal
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL The presidential administration...controversial of which was the Teapot Dome oil scandal. Conservation...in storage places called domes, one of which, located...Wyoming, was christened Teapot Dome due to a rock formation in...
The Teapot Dome Scandal
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History The Teapot Dome Scandal, one of the most sensational in American...contempt of Congress and contempt of court. Teapot Dome entered American political folklore...failed to shake Republican dominance. Teapot Dome's long‐range significance...
Teapot Dome
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Teapot Dome in U.S. history, oil reserve scandal that began during the administration...control of naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyo., and at Elk Hills...without competitive bidding, the Teapot Dome fields to Harry F. Sinclair...
Robert Marion La Follette
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Versailles Treaty and American membership in the League of Nations. He played a prominent role in exposing the Teapot Dome scandals of Warren Harding's administration. In 1924 he was the Progressive candidate for president, winning endorsements...
Harlan Fiske Stone
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Attorney General (1924-25) under President Coolidge, helped to restore faith in the Dept. of Justice after the Teapot Dome scandals. Appointed (1925) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, he established a reputation for his vigorous minority...
Roberts, Owen Josephus
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ...of Pennsylvania until 1919. In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge named Roberts a special U.S. attorney in the Teapot Dome Scandals. When Herbert Hoover's initial choice for a 1930 Supreme Court vacancy, John J. Parker of North Carolina...
Harding, Warren G.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Although tainted by scandal, Warren Gamaliel...Daugherty. The Harding scandals collectively became known as Teapot Dome after revelations...personal or public scandals became widely known...Tariffs ; Teapot Dome Scandal ; Twenties, The...
Harding, Warren Gamaliel
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...disclosed an impending scandal for his administration...Warren G. Harding The scandals that stained the Harding...in a hung jury. The teapot dome scandal was the most troubling...owned oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and...
Daugherty, Harry Micajah
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...tainted by accusations of political corruption and scandal. Daugherty was born in Ohio on January 26, 1860...was directly involved in the most famous of these scandals, the teapot dome scandal, where the secretary of the interior was accused...
Warren Gamaliel Harding
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...deadlock of 1923 came rumors of scandals in the Veterans' Bureau, in...troubled by the exposure of the Teapot Dome scandal and was spared the humiliation...to the bar of justice. Lesser scandals were also exposed, and Harding...

Dictionary entries related to "Teapot Dome scandal"

Teapot Dome Scandal
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Teapot Dome Scandal (USA) When Warren G. Harding was elected US President in 1920...Harding transferred the management of the US navy's oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, from the navy to the Interior Department under his old...
Teapot Dome scandal
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Teapot Dome scandal (1922–24) US fraud perpetrated by the “Ohio...siphoning of oil, intended for the US navy, from the oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to the Mammoth Oil Company. A second diversion allowed...
Teapot Dome Oil Scandal
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History TEAPOT DOME OIL SCANDAL TEAPOT DOME OIL SCANDAL. In October 1929, Albert...political fallout of the scandal was enormous. Though...Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon...Eric S. Yellin See also Scandals .
Political Scandals
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...his cabinet led to several scandals, the largest being the Teapot Dome scandal, when Harding's secretary...government oil contracts. The scandals spawned only modest reforms...victory in 1932. No major scandal touched Roosevelt's New...
Teapot Dome
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Teapot Dome the name of a naval oil reserve in Wyoming, irregularly leased by the US government in 1922, and referred to allusively in connection with the resulting political scandal.
Scandals
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Encyclopedia of American Scandal. New York: Facts On File...Fall From Grace: Sex, Scandal, and Corruption in American...Batchelor See also Clinton Scandals ; Clinton v. Jones ; Iran-Contra Affair ; Teapot Dome Oil Scandal .
Special Prosecutors
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...in the 1920s to investigate the Teapot Dome scandal, involving the alleged corrupt...government largely due to the Watergate scandal. After President Richard M. Nixon...under the cloud of the Watergate scandal, Nixon in the spring of 1973 appointed...
Naval Oil Reserves
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Buena Vista, California; and Teapot Dome, Wyoming — altogether...that had leased Elk Hills and Teapot Dome. Through the ensuing scandal, Denby and Fall were forced...Energy retained control of the Teapot Dome and Buena Vista reserves...
Scandal
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary 576. Scandal (See also .) Ab é...EB , I: 18] Black Sox Scandal Chicago White Sox baseball...Hist.: EB , IX: 383] Teapot Dome government oil reserves fraudulently...Flexner, 353] Watergate scandals involving Nixon ’...
Harding, Warren Gamaliel
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...was marked by highly publicized scandals (many of which came to light only...most notorious of these was the Teapot Dome affair, concerning the transfer of naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to the Department of...

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BIG OIT, BIG SCANDAL BOOK DETAILS BRIBERY, CORRUPTION BEHIND TEAPOT DOME OIL DEALS.(A&E)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 2/3/2008; 700+ words ; ...more than its share. But the Teapot Dome scandals of the 1920s will probably stand...Laton McCartney's book, The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding...of oil was buried beneath the Teapot Dome, near Casper, Wyo...
The Teapot Dome Scandal BOOKS / Nonfiction
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 2/14/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Tribune 02-14-2008 The Teapot Dome Scandal BOOKS / Nonfiction Byline...FEATURES The Teapot Dome Scandal How Big Oil Bought the...by William Grimes * Scandals in Washington come and...in "The Teapot Dome Scandal," duly notes all of...
'Teapot Dome' sheds new light on scandal
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 3/9/2008; ; 681 words ; THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL: HOW BIG OIL BOUGHT THE HARDING WHITE...book-length study was written of the Teapot Dome scandal that symbolized the massive...presidents in American history. Although Teapot Dome is a familiar name most students...
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Campaigns & Elections; 3/1/2008; ; 475 words ; The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the...linked Warren G. Harding with the fraudulent schemes of Big Oil. The Teapot Dome Scandal describes how oilmen received oil reserves in Wyoming set...
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
Magazine article from: Politics; 3/1/2008; ; 327 words ; The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the...linked Warren G. Harding with the fraudulent schemes of Big oil. The Teapot Dome Scandal describes how oilmen received oil reserves in Wyoming set...
The Teapot Dome Scandal
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/26/1999; 628 words ; ...orchestrated one of the biggest scandals in presidential history. Fall...his department (one of them, Teapot Dome, gave the scandal its name) and then leased them...cases growing out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration...
'Striking similarities' between Iran-Contra Affair and Watergate, Teapot Dome and Credit Mobilier scandals.
PR Newswire; 8/31/1987; 700+ words ; ...AFFAIR AND WATERGATE, TEAPOT DOME AND CREDIT MOBILIER SCANDALS /ADVANCE/NEW YORK...American political scandals -- Watergate, Teapot...Heritage that in each scandal the "overriding question...book about political scandals in American history...
Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B Fall
Magazine article from: Environmental History; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert...Cloth $29,95 "Teapot Dome" is both the name...the greatest political scandals in twentieth-century U.S. history. The "teapot" in Teapot Dome refers...cabinet. Central to the scandal was Interior Secretary...
THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL IS UP NEXT FROM TEAPOT DOME TO IRAN-CONTRA, U.S. PRESIDENTS HAVE KNOWN SC ANDEL.(Perspective)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/1/1987; 700+ words ; ...perspective. Specifically, the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, the Pearl Harbor...oil reserves at a place called Teapot Dome to a private oil developer...served as special prosecutor in the Teapot Dome affair, to head an investigation...
LOGGERS FIGHT RULES PROTECTING OWLS APPEALS COURT REAFFIRMS BARRY RULING TEAPOT DOME ROOM RUINED BY FIRE.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/31/1991; 700+ words ; ...WASHINGTON - The elegant dining quarters where the Teapot Dome scandal was consummated, one of Washington's original and...administrator. It earned its place on Washington's list of scandal sites in 1922 when President Warren G. Harding's...