THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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That the US Secretaries of the Treasury and the Interior had illegally leased US strategic reserve oil fields to private companies in exchange for bribes
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That Warren G. Harding had been nominated for President in a “smoke filled room”
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That Coolidge liked to secretly push the White House panic button during Tea Time in the afternoons
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That the US Government illegally drilled for oil on private land
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Detailed explanation-1: -Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. The leases were the subject of a seminal investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh.
Detailed explanation-2: -On the previous day, the Wall Street Journal had reported an unprecedented secret arrangement in which the secretary of the Interior, without competitive bidding, had leased the U.S. naval petroleum reserve at Wyoming’s Teapot Dome to a private oil company.
Detailed explanation-3: -Definition: The Teapot Dome Scandal involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies. In exchange, Fall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming.