Word: district
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding, first convicted Cabinet felon in U. S. history. He still owed Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny $100,000 (exclusive of interest) on what he still insists was "a friendly loan" made eight years ago. He owed the U. S. another $100,000-the fine imposed last week after a District of Columbia Supreme Court jury had found the Doheny "loan" corrupt, a bribe. Additional debt to the U. S.: one year of his life in prison. Mr. Fall's assets, both in dollars and years of life, were running...
...Fall accepted the prison sentence, Justice Hitz said he would, because of Fall's broken health, have suspended it indefinitely. But Fall accepted the full sentence to complete his case for appeal which he will carry first to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and then on to the same U. S. Supreme Court which in 1926 branded him "a faithless public officer'' on the same evidence when in a civil suit it voided the Doheny-Fall lease for the Elk Hills naval oil reserve...
Responsive to White House proddings. District of Columbia officials last week strove manfully to make the capital the model dry city of the land. A month had passed since Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska had gladdened President Hoover by "raising the question" of the President's direct responsibility for law enforcement in the District of Columbia, where he is the chief municipal official (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week's developments in Washington's dry war included...
...South and its inability to adjust itself to the new commercial expansion. The plot of the novel, what little of it there is, is centered around a conflict of two strong wills, the father Major Hugh Dandridge, the last of the old southern aristocracy in the district of Le Flore, and his son John, a Princeton graduate...
...must face the face that this is only the beginning. What will Boston and Cambridge be fifty years from now? The Metropolitan District of Boston already has a population of about a million and a half. In half a century more it will have two or three million. Like the whole surrounding region, Cambridge will be more and more densely populated. It will be a place of brick and mortar, of noise and scurry and distraction, no longer a suburb of pleasant houses, shady streets, simple and quiet ways...