21. Mobilier relies on a clever mix of elegance and craziness as visited upon French designs of the 1940s and'50s.22. So Durant set up Credit Mobilier to build the railroad, and paid it from the bonds the Union Pacific sold. 23. Government corruption by private interests has been another favored topic, in the Credit Mobilier and Teapot Dome scandals in particular. 24. Garfield's biographers were unwilling to exonerate him in Cr�dit Mobilier , with Allan Peskin writing " Did Garfield lie? 25. Train was noted for having created the Cr�dit Mobilier in 1864, which he started specifically to finance the Union Pacific. 26. In this scheme, the Union Pacific Railroad bankrupted itself by overpaying its construction company, the Cr�dit Mobilier of America. 27. To prove he's not bluffing, Crane reports that he's sold his landholdings and Cr�dit Mobilier stock. 28. He was invited by Mobilier national to decorate the private apartments of Georges Pompidou in the �lys�e Palace ( 1971 ). 29. As a representative of Cr�dit Mobilier , he offers $ 100 per acre to prevent the railroad from claiming eminent domain. 30. Colfax was later implicated in the Credit Mobilier scandal but should now be remembered by historians as the coiner of battleground states.
