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Carl Magee: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge and Invented the Parking Meter
Jack McElroy Newspaper Editor and Journalist (Retired) Author Carl Magee arrived in Albuquerque in 1919 and bought The Albuquerque Journal, then launched The Albuquerque Tribune. The newspaperman was soon at war with New Mexico’s powerful political machine. Magee later exposed the Teapot Dome bribery scandal that sent New Mexico’s first U.S. senator, Albert Fall, to prison. …