1920's Government and Politics | Leases Upon Naval Oil Reserves and Activities of the Continental Trading Co. (LTD.) of Canada

Report

By: U.S. Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys

Date: May 28, 1928

Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. Leases Upon Naval Oil Reserves and Activities of the Continental Trading Co. (Ltd.) of Canada. 70th Cong., 1st sess., May 28, 1928. S. Supplemental Report No. 70–1326, Pt. 2, at 3. Available online at http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/gs/ic/teapotdome/teapotdome... ; website home page: http://www.brook.edu (accessed January 29, 2003).

About the Author: In April 1922, Wyoming senator John Kendrick introduced a Senate resolution that launched one of the most important Senate investigations in U.S. history. Earlier, The Wall Street Journal had reported a secret deal in which Albert B. Fall, secretary of the interior,...