Subtitle of this chapter: Corruption and Entertainment Should Be Styled

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The Teapot Hill scandal was extremely involved and had a great impact, and the Home Ministers Mr. Fore and Mr. Sinclair were indeed important players, and they were also discredited and imprisoned.

But in addition to these two, there are many other important people involved.

Admiralty Edwin, then the Secretary of the Navy in Harding's cabinet? Dunby took the blame and resigned.

Old Theodore? President Roosevelt's eldest son, Deputy Secretary of the Navy Theodore Jr.? Roosevelt was one of the whistleblowers of the scandal. And the key witness is his younger brother Archer? Roosevelt, who was a high-ranking employee of Sinclair Oil.

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

Treasury Secretary Mellon also took money from Mr. Sinclair, but he said nothing at several hearings, which is a model of silence.

There is also more than one Sinclair oil contractor in these three fields, Maxia Oil Company, Central West Petroleum Company, Praley Oil Company, and Indiana Standard Oil Company have all inserted a foot in it.

This scandalous case seems to be the case of collusion between officials and businessmen to eat kickbacks, and it seems that there is nothing unusual and not so unusual.

In fact, there is a bit of irony in this incident. The U.S. Navy owns these oil reserves to supply the Pacific Fleet in Hawaii......

However, they did not have the capacity to develop it, so they had to transfer it to the Ministry of Internal Affairs......

The collusion of these two departments has allowed a number of oil merchants to take advantage, and of course the department chiefs have also made a lot of extra money......

Eventually, these oil merchants sold the oil that had been supplied to the Pacific Fleet to the Japanese, the first imaginary enemy of the Pacific Fleet.

Well, compared with other scandals that broke out in the Harding government, the Teapot Hill scandal is the most "stylish" one.

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

Mr. Forbes is a former deserter who became the director of the Retired Service, and he really served as a deserter in the Navy during the Spanish-American War. However, President Harding trusted him so much that he asked him to take care of the American heroes who were wounded and disabled in World War I.

During the two years he cared for American heroes, he spent a full 200 million dollars.

The Forbes director spent money in much the same way as the Pentagon's $100 toilet paper in later generations. For example, during his tenure, he purchased a total of 70,000 US dollars of floor wax, which is said to be enough for 100 years.

He also sold the sheets in the warehouse for $1 for 25 cents and bought them back for $1. Later, those warehouse operators were troublesome, so they simply didn't transport the sheets in and out, just change the label.

What a bold American man.

"This is Gaston? B. Mines. ”

Oh, this Mr. Mines is even more bold. He is the head of the Aliens Administration. And this department, which sounds like no flowers, is managing a very flowery aftermath at this time, that is, dealing with the "enemy property" in World War I.

During the war, the U.S. government naturally confiscated the "enemy property" of the Germans. But if anyone can produce "proof" that these "enemy properties" are not Germans but Swiss, or Dutch, or Belgians, or whatever, then the reasonable United States Government will return the property to its "original owners."

Needless to say, there is a lot of oil and water in it.

In fact, Mr. Minenes' hand is even longer, and he is the one in the "Ohio Gang" who specializes in dealing with gangs.

According to his own confession in 1930, he would open two adjoining rooms in a New York hotel, one of which contained a large fish tank. The leaders of the clubs who trafficked moonshine would enter the room at the appointed time and throw money into the fish tank. Of course, Minenes was in the next room to monitor the whole process.

With this kind of means that only happens in movies, the "insurance premium" he handles a year is as high as 3.5 million US dollars.

The next few people introduced by President Harding were his "buddies" in Marion. Among them were his brother-in-law, who was the Superintendent of Prisons in the United States, his personal physician who was now the senior coordinator of the Department of Health, and a friend of his lawyers, who had become a currency commissioner.

The Currency Comptroller is an important position in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the Treasury Department, whose primary function is to oversee the National Bank of the United States. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 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 unknown.

"Mr. Yuan, is this Andrew? Mr. Mellon, you've been to his house for the ball. ”

After coming to power, he cut taxes by a large margin in accordance with the principles of the liberal market, relaxed various regulations in the financial market, raised tariffs while encouraging investment, and greatly enhanced the competitiveness of domestic industrial products, thus making the twenties a golden age.

A hundred years from now, My Majesty Trump's Treasury Secretary Steven? Steven Mnuchin and Andrew? Mellon is quite similar, they are both from the second generation of wealth, and they even have similar policies to implement.

In fact, Harding, the promiscuous president, has not had much impact on the federal government. That's the good thing for liberals to insist on a small government and a big market.

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

Therefore, the "poker cabinet" is really harmless to play poker, and it is even more NICE to change it to mahjong. If the presidents of the United States are all mahjong lovers, it will be a considerable help for Yuan Yanqian and them to promote mahjong.

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

First, these people will not bring themselves as Chinese to make a fortune, and it is good to discriminate without face.

Second, these people have a bad reputation, and they are all people who want to be masters of neoclassical liberalism, how can they get too close to these people who have ruined the name of liberalism.

Third, these people did not help him in his "grand plan", and after the Great Depression, the Republican Party was of little use to himself.

After President Harding personally introduced everyone in the room, he eagerly stared at Yuan Yanqian and asked bluntly, "Mr. Yuan, did you bring your things?" ”

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For the record, the content of this chapter is all English materials translated by Murong himself and historical materials excerpted from the book. I have always believed that since we write history, we must have a historical attitude, and explaining background information is really not "water"