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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A former US Navy oil reserve in east-central Wyoming north of Casper. Secretly leased to Harry F. Sinclair's oil company by Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in 1921, it became a symbol of the governmental scandals of the Harding administration.
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- noun a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration
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Examples
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One need only recall Teapot Dome and Watergate to recognize that such prosecutions are perfectly plausible.
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We barely rember the sex scandles of the past but Teapot Dome and Watergate live on in the collective memory.
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Amazingly enough, the great Teapot Dome scandal never became an issue at all in the campaign, and Coolidge won handily.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Amazingly enough, the great Teapot Dome scandal never became an issue at all in the campaign, and Coolidge won handily.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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How bout we investigate what happened with the Teapot Dome scandal?
Think Progress » Unwilling To Investigate Bush Administration, Congress Returns To Clinton 2006
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This hearing, Judge Roberts, is being held in the Senate Caucus Room, which has been the site of many historic hearings going back to 1912 with the sinking of the Titanic; 1923, Teapot Dome; 1954, Army McCarthy; 1973, Watergate; 1987, Iran-Contra.
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Business seemed, in the worshipful fever of the 1920s, incapable of doing wrong, save for the occasional scandal such as that involving the naval oil reserve at Teapot Dome.
THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998
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And so even though he rang for his personal physician -- this was all in the White House, according to Samuel Adams -- the physician came up, but at that point, this novelistic president decided it would better -- be better to go out with a certain eclat than to remain alive and then have Teapot Dome on his head.
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This hearing, Miss Miers, is being held in the Senate Caucus Room, which has been the site of many historic hearings going back to 1912 with the sinking of the Titanic; 1923, Teapot Dome; 1954, Army McCarthy; 1973, Watergate; 1987, Iran-Contra.
Front page feed 2009
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It dwarfs 1929, Ponzi's scheme, Teapot Dome, the South Sea Bubble, tulip bulbs, you name it.
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