Sentence examples for dome Scandal from inspiring English sources

He also figured in the Teapot Dome Scandal in the 1920s.

Passing lightly over the Teapot Dome scandal, Shlaes refers mildly to "the troubles that had dogged" Harding.

But within a year, exposés about malfeasance within his inner circle exploded into the Teapot Dome scandal.

It also said he had covered the Teapot Dome scandal, among other stories, during his years in The Times's Washington bureau.

Teapot Dome Scandal, also called Oil Reserves Scandal or Elk Hills Scandal, in American history, scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall.

Laton McCartney, in "The Teapot Dome Scandal," duly notes all of the above, but in his pedestrian retelling of the affair somehow manages to turn pulp drama into a bureaucratic dossier.

Government corruption by private interests has been another favored topic, in the Crédit Mobilier and Teapot Dome scandals in particular.

"Not in memory has a single major company grown so big in tandem with a presidential dynasty and a corrupted political system," wrote the Republican political analyst Kevin Phillips in The Los Angeles Times five months ago, tracing Bush family favor-swapping with Enron back to 1988 and likening Enron's potential damage to that of the Harding administration's Teapot Dome scandals.

U.S. presidential history includes things like the Watergate, Iran-Contra and Teapot Dome scandals.

Owner Edward L Doheny was the richest guy in America, but in the midst of the Teapot Dome [bribery] scandal, his son Edward Doheny Jnr. and his son's chauffeur Hugh Plunkett were both shot in the head.

Even in the presidency most often associated with open corruption, it was Warren Harding's Interior secretary, not Harding himself, who had taken bribes in the Teapot Dome oil lease scandal.