Subtitle of this chapter: Corruption and entertainment must pay attention to style

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The Teapot Mountain scandal was involved and had a great impact. The Minister of the Interior Mr. Fore and Mr. Sinclair were indeed important roles, and they were also disgraced and were sent to prison.

But besides these two people, there are many other important figures involved.

Edwin Dengbi, the Minister of the Navy of Harding's Cabinet, resigned due to the blame.

Theodore Roosevelt, the eldest son of President Old Theodore Roosevelt and Deputy Secretary of the Admiralty, were one of the whistles of the scandal. The key witness was his younger brother Archer Roosevelt, a senior employee of Sinclair Petroleum.

The brother asked his brother to expose his boss, so the brother really took the initiative to reveal the news to the press.

Minister of Finance Mellon also collected Mr. Sinclair's money, but he said nothing at several hearings, and was a model of silence.

More than one Sinclair oil contractor, Maccia Oilfield Company, Centre and West Petroleum Company, Prely Oil Company, and Indiana Standard Oil Company all inserted it into it.

This scandal seems to be a collusion between officials and businessmen and they are taking kickbacks. It seems nothing strange and not so strange.

In fact, this incident is a bit ironic. The US Navy owns these oil reservations to provide oil to the Pacific Fleet in Hawaii...

But they had no ability to develop and had to transfer it to the Ministry of the Interior...

These two departments have benefited a lot of oil merchants in a collusion, and of course the department heads have also made a lot of extra money...

In the end, these oil merchants sold the oil originally provided to the Pacific Fleet to the Japanese, the primary imaginary enemy of the Pacific Fleet.

Well, compared to other scandals that broke out from the Harding government, the Teapot Mountain scandal case is still the most "style" one.

"Mr. Yuan, this is Mr. Charles R. Forbes."

Mr. Forbes became a former deserter of the retired military administration. He really served as a naval deserter in the Spanish-American War. However, President Harding trusted him very much and asked the American heroes who were injured and disabled in World War I.

During his two years of care for the American heroes, he spent a total of 200 million US dollars.

Director Forbes spent money similar to the Pentagon’s 100-dollar toilet paper. For example, during his tenure, he purchased a total of 70,000 US dollars of floor wax, which is said to be enough for a hundred years.

He also sold the sheets in the warehouse that were originally priced at one US dollar for 25 cents, and then bought them for one US dollar. Later, the warehouse operators found it troublesome and simply did not transport the sheets in and out, just change the labels.

What a generous American man.

"This is Gaston B Means."

Oh, Mr. Means is even more generous. He is the chief of the Foreign Affairs Office. The department that sounds like no one is managing a very good aftermath, which is to deal with the "enemy property" in the war.

During the war, the US government naturally confiscated the Germans' "enemy property". However, if someone can provide "evidence" to prove that these "enemy property" are not Germans but Swiss, Dutch, Belgians or someone else, then the rational US government will return these property to the "original owner".

Needless to say, there is a lot of oil here.

In fact, Mr. Means's hand was stretched long, and he was a person in the "Ohio Gang" who specialized in dealing with gangsters.

According to his confession in 1930, he would open two adjacent rooms in a hotel in New York, one of which contained a large fish tank. The heads of the clubs who trafficked smuggling wine would enter the room at the agreed time and throw money into the fish tank. Of course, Means monitored the entire process in the next room.

Using such a method that only happens in movies, the "insurance fee" he handles in a year is as high as 3.5 million US dollars.

The next few President Harding introduced were his "budies" in Marion. Among them was his brother-in-law who served as the director of the U.S. prison, his personal doctor is now a senior coordinator of the Department of Health, and one of his lawyer friends became the currency supervisor.

Currency Comptroller is an important position in the IRS of the Treasury Department, and its main function is to supervise the National Bank of America. The Currency Comptroller and the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Company, and the Securities and Exchange Commission are the four most important financial supervisory agencies of the U.S. federal government.

However, such an important position fell into the hands of a young lawyer who was originally an unknown person.

"Mr. Yuan, this is Mr. Andrew Mellon. You've been to his home to attend a dance."

The only one among these people who can see is this Finance Minister. They are not vague in collecting money but not vague in their work. After they came to power, they significantly reduced taxes in accordance with the principles of the liberal market and relaxed various regulations in the financial market. While encouraging investment, they also increased tariffs, greatly enhancing the competitiveness of domestic industrial products, thus making the 1920s a golden age.

A hundred years later, Steven Mnuchin, the Secretary of Treasury of His Majesty Trump, has similarities with Andrew Mellon. They are both rich second-generations and even the policies they have to implement are similar.

In fact, the bad-hearted president Harding, who established a bad cabinet, did not affect the operation of the federal government much. This is the benefit of liberals sticking to small government and large markets.

Fortunately, there are several key positions in the cabinet, such as Vice President Coolidge, Secretary of State Hughes and Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who are not part of this messy group.

Therefore, it is really harmless to play poker in the "Poker Cabinet". If it were mahjong, it would be even more NICE. If the American commanders were all mahjong enthusiasts, it would be a great help for Yuan Yanshu and others to promote mahjong.

However, our Master Yuan will not spend more energy on these people in the future. Just be familiar with them.

First of all, these people will not bring themselves as Chinese to make money, so it would be great if they are not discriminated against each other.

Secondly, these people have too bad reputations. They all want to be masters of neoclassical liberalism. How can they get too close to these people who corrupt liberal names?

Third, these people did not help his "great plan". After the Great Depression, the Republican Party had no use of itself.

After President Harding personally introduced everyone indoors, he stared at Yuan Yanshun eagerly and asked directly: "Mr. Yuan, have you brought your stuff?"

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Chapter completed!