Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Henry Mason Day, jailed with Harry Ford Sinclair for contempt of court after the Teapot Dome oil investigation, was made a partner of Redmond & Co., Wall Street brokers...
Kettleman. Oilmen hailed as a big step toward conservation a plan whereby Kettleman North Dome Association will be formed to operate that rich field as a unit, distributing products among members in ratio to their acreage, whether developed...
...Interior as to the facts." The World replied: Of course not, because the man to whom such inquiry would surely be referred is Edward C. Finney, now the Department's solicitor, formerly (1921-29) Assistant Secretary, the man who saw nothing wrong when the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome scandals were in the making, the man most directly attacked by the Kelley charges. In 1928, Mr. Finney wrote the basic decision which Kelley protested as nullifying the "discovery" provision of the old mining laws and thereby validating countless paper claims of oil companies to shale lands. Mr. Finney...
...comprehensive slow motion pictures were accepted, not one, but many, uncalled fouls would be revealed in every hard-fought game. The scores of every important football game in history would have to be revised. The decision of every hard-fought game would require about as long as the Teapot Dome case. This being the case, it seems to us a little shorts of the fine old Bulldog sportsmanship to broadcast to the world this particular non-called Army foul...
...Berlin, not even in Prussia, but in Saxony, in Leipzig sits the German Supreme Court: das Reichsgericht. Justice is done beneath a mighty dome topped by a big bronze statue of Truth. Through tall casement windows Saxon sunbeams glint upon carved oak. In such a setting presiding Judge Baumgarten (except when fiddling with one of his ears) is a sight awesome as Olympian Jove. Boldly to face the justice down, to use the Supreme Court dome as a demagog's thumping tub, to hurl from dem Reichsgericht a defy which reverberated throughout Europe, such was the feat last week...