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Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene got a man who sold oil to Sinclair et al to tell his story. Then they requisitioned bank records to show that Mr. Fall had received Liberty Bonds, hoping to trace these bonds back to the oil transaction. The court ruled that these records did not directly connect Fall and Sinclair in conspiracy and were therefore "manifestly immaterial." Thereupon, the Government counsel prepared to go into the second scene and attempted to trace the bonds in the opposite direction- from Sinclair to Fall. Because so many witnesses are abroad, this will be difficult, but Messrs. Roberts...
...Second International Opium Convention (TIME, Nov. 24 et seq.; Mar. 2) was thrown open for signature to all States, members and non-members of the League...
...Scott Anderson, 46, the U. S. citizen who, singlehanded, effected the release of all the foreign prisoners in the Lincheng bandit episode (TIME, May 19, 1923, et seq.), died in Peking from pneumonia...
...proposed Protocol to the Covenant of the League of Nations-a document devised last summer to maintain the status quo in Europe, to enable European Powers to disarm and to set up a system of obligatory arbitration of international disputes under threat of combined punitive measures (TIME, Sept. 8 et seq.)-was last week unanimously declared dead (because the British Commonwealth of Nations does not intend to sign it) and the whole question of security loomed large in the politics of Europe...
...current talk during the fall and winter about the speculative profits derived from the stock market by Messrs. Durant, Livermore, et al,, some of the extraordinary profits obtained recently in Florida realty have been largely overlooked. Florida has apparently replaced California as the seventh heaven of the "realtor...