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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Tea Pot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident which took place during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Great Railroad Strike of 1922
Tea Pot Dome Scandal was used to called as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics."
The strike and Great Railroad Strike of 1922 damaged the reputation of the Harding administration and made the administration ended. -
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investigation
The releases became the subject of a sensational investigation and became the first Cabinet member to go to the prison.