Get latest issue sarita magazine published this article page no 3 with the exception of watergate there has never been a scandal more egregious and with wider implications than the teapot dome affair during the presidency of warren g. harding. it involved the secret leasing to private companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the navy mainly in wyoming and california. domes are natural reservoirs of crude oil. the teapot dome - named after a rock resembling the kitchen implement - was near casper wyoming. it was reserved in 1920 for the future energy needs of american navy vessels. senator albert b. fall of new mexico - hardings secretary of the interior - opposed this conservation policy. hence his furtive attempt - in collusion with secretary of the navy edward denby and others - to lease the domes to private extractors. teapot dome was leased to harry f. sinclairs mammoth oil company. the elk hills reserve in california was rented to edward l. dohenys pan-american petroleum and transport company. the two gave fall and others gifts and loans amounting to $400000 - an enormous fortune at the time. the scandal was made public in 1922 in a long investigation by the u.s. senates committee on public lands led by senator thomas j. walsh from montana and senator robert Sarita magazine Hindi family magazine subscribe now.
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