Today -100: May 28, 1925: Of teapots and assassinations

Former Interior Sec. Albert Fall and oil tycoons (oil tycoons are the oiliest kind of tycoon) Edward Doheny and Harry Sinclair are indicted (again) for conspiracy to defraud the government in acquiring the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases. There’s not also a bribery charge because the only evidence that Doheny “lent” Fall $100,000 is that he, um, admitted it before a Senate committee.

Corneliu Codreanu, Romanian student and founder of the fascist Iron Guard, is acquitted for assassinating the Jassy police chief in retaliation for the alleged bad treatment of anti-Semitic dickhead students. There’s a large celebration of anti-Semitic dickhead students in Bucharest.

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