Teapot Dome
/ˌtiːpɒt ˈdəʊm/
/ˌtiːpɑːt ˈdəʊm/
- a US political scandal in 1922 in the government of President Warren G Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall secretly accepted money from the Mammoth Oil Company to let them develop oil lands at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elks Hill, California. The Senate investigated, and Fall left the government in 1923. He was later sent to prison.
茶壶穹顶（Teapot Dome）：1922年在沃伦·G·哈丁（Warren G Harding）总统的政府中引起的美国政治丑闻。内政部长阿尔伯特·福尔（Albert Fall）秘密地从猛mm石油公司（Mommoth Oil Company）那里接受了资金，让他们在怀俄明州的茶壶圆顶和怀俄明州的麋鹿山开发油田。参议院进行了调查，法尔于1923年离开政府。他后来被送入监狱。