TEAPOT DOME


Meaning of TEAPOT DOME in English

a US political scandal in 1922 in the government of President Warren G Harding . Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall secretly accepted money from the Mammoth Oil Company to let them develop oil lands at Teapot Dome, Wyoming , and Elks Hill, California . The Senate investigated, and Fall left the government in 1923. He was later sent to prison.

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