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President Coolidge was annoyed, very. Through the medium of the arch-Democratic and exceedingly militant New York World he learned that all was not well with another of the Government's oil leases with ill-famed Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair & colleagues. It was a lease on the Salt Creek field in Wyoming, adjacent to memorable Teapot Dome. It was a lease made by President Harding's Secretary Albert Bacon Fall and renewed by President Coolidge's whilom Secretary Dr. Hubert Work. It was a lease which Senator Walsh of Montana, famed oil inquisitor, had suspected and asked...
Exposure. The alert Kansas City Star, the Universal Service (Hearst), and the arch-Democratic New York World were on the job. On Oct. 14. the World said that, with Senator Walsh's assistance, it was going to expose "another oil scandal." On Oct. 15. the World and Senator Walsh began telling the story of the Salt Creek lease and its renewal. On Oct. 16, the World continued the story. That afternoon. Attorney General Sargent signed and issued an opinion holding the Salt Creek lease void in the first instance and its renewal void as a result...
...hamlets of Athens, Tenn., and Gilmer, West Va., got into the nation's news last week, because of two spiders. The Gilmer spider, a bright gold creature three inches in diameter, was discovered in the barn of one Arch Hefner, brother of County Clerk E. W. Hefner. Beneath this spider's dwelling nook, plainly spun in sheerest spiderweb. the Brothers Hefner said they could read the name "Smith...
...arch-Democratic New York World pointed out, however, that Nominee Hoover had not yet said flatly that he favored Federal operation. The World laughed at the Scripps-Howard chain-papers and called the Hoover postscripts "shadow-boxing." Vexed but honest, the chain-papers admitted that the Hoover candor had not been perfect. They said: "It is difficult to understand why Hoover didn't say he was for government ownership and government operation of Muscle Shoals, or either or neither, instead of saying something else, then pointing to it and saying further, 'that means Muscle Shoals'; then, two days later, interpreting...
...very painful to observe that Lee Simonson's settings, in which a pointed arch at the back of the stage became a frame for pictures of the sky or country, and Wolfgang Zeller's curious songs, were far superior to the play itself. Possibly this was due to the dull fervors of translation; but the only epigram which Mephistopheles achieved, though he was forever trying, was this: "He died like a good Christian for he had much to repent...