Harding scandals

Cultural  

1. Major incidents of corruption in government that occurred while Warren Harding was president in the early 1920s. The most notable, called the Teapot Dome scandal, involved the lease of federally owned oil reserve lands to private interests, in return for bribes. Several high officials, including the secretary of the interior, were ultimately convicted for their part in the affair. Although not personally implicated in the wrongdoing, Harding had clearly made a bad choice of associates and was shaken by the scandals.

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Example Sentences

Of his successor, Cohen says: “The way he dealt with all of the Harding scandals is he cultivated a whole image of Silent Cal: ‘I’m a man so quiet and so reserved that I couldn’t possibly have had anything to do with this.’

From The Guardian

Author Allen gives what he says is the first connected account of the Harding scandals, of the late lamented Bull Market.

From Time Magazine Archive

It stirred up the greatest hornet nest of a political generation, the Harding scandals �Oil, Veterans' Bureau, Department of Justice, Prohibition Enforcement�which, inch by inch, forced Denby, then Daugherty out of the Coolidge Cabinet.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the Harding scandals, the Coolidge and Hoover administrations were as clean as Washington had been for generations.

From Time Magazine Archive