Roaring 20s comic strip
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- President it is time for your signing of the oil reserves to Albert Bacon Fall.
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Applesauce! I forgot.
- You are definitely the bee's knees.
- Thank you! And thank you for the oil reserves too.
- I would like to give you leasing of federal oil reserves.
- You are for sure the big cheese.
- This scandal was surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of interior, Albert Bacon Fall.
- I believe the moolah is from Sinclair.
- The U.S. President Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the department of interior 1921, Albert secretly granted Harry F. Sinclair exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome Reserves.
- I have never met a person that is more of a flat tire.
- I am so sorry.
- Later Albert granted similar rights to Edward L. Doheny for the Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills Reserve.
- You are all wet and are being convicted.
- For how long?
- Later when these leases became under investigation by the committees of the U.S. Senate, it was disclosed that shortly after the signing of the Teapot Dome lease, Albert and members of his family had received more than $200,000 in Liberty Bonds under the circumstances this was indicating that the bonds they received were from a company organized by Sinclair and some others receiving benefits from the lease.
- When the affair became know, Congress directed President Harding to cancel the leases the Supreme Court declared the leases fraudulent and ruled illegal Harding's transfer of authority to Fall. Even though he was not a part of the transactions that had followed the transfer, it caused a severe toll on his health. He became disillusioned and and exhausted, he died before the full extent of of the wrongdoing had been determined.
- Albert Fall, was convicted of accepting a bribe in the Elk Hills negotiations and imprisoned. Doheny and Sinclair were both acquitted charges of bribery and criminal conspiracy. But Sinclair spent 6 and a half months in prison for contempt of court and contempt of the U.S. Senate. Even though the Secretary of the navy, Edwin Denby, had signed all the leases, and was cleared of all charges.
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