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That statement convicted Albert Bacon Fall, onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior, of bribery. It branded him as the first felon in a President's Cabinet in U. S. history. It made him liable to a three-year prison sentence, a $300,000 fine.* It changed the $100,000 in cash sent Fall in a little black bag by Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny from an innocent "loan" between old friends to a corrupt and criminal payment to influence the Secretary of the Interior to lease U. S. Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 at Elk Hills. Cal., to Doheny...
...France sell the artificial ones. Thus people learn the beauty of the real ones and buy-from Mexico, Ceylon, Arabia. Into this double pearl demand Japan has insinuated itself. Work people drop a grain of irritant into an oyster's shell. A kind of hard felon develops in the oyster. It is a cultured pearl...
...executive journal. For days after Mr. Fields took office, convicts' relatives poured in bearing Morrow pardons. Some years ago, while Kentucky's Governor and Lieutenant Governor were out of the state for three days, acting Governor Thomas A. Combs issued scores of pardons, including one to a felon who had pleaded guilty...
...pearls of Kokichi Mikimoto, 68, multimillionaire. He employs hundreds of men to insert a tiny particle of foreign matter within the shells of individual pearl oysters. Such a foreign body irritates the oyster to cover the particle with pearl material, a process that somewhat resembles the formation of a felon around a sliver in a finger. Kokichi Mikimoto employs 500 Japanese girls and many a man to go diving for the pearl oysters, hazardous occupation. Last week he debarked at San Francisco, on his way to inspect his Exposition show; remarked: "Naturally, I do not want to lower prices...
...brave, self-sufficient British parent. "Heath's luck? I look ahead and leave nothing to chance," said he. Yet his friend, Paul Kenyon, prophesied that he would pay for his happiness "to the uttermost farthing." He did. One child left home; another married a rotter; another became a felon. The youngest, whom Stephen really, finally loved, worked himself to death trying to please. Such a tale, such a well defined autocrat as Stephen Heath, might serve the ends of young things with harsh, exacting papas, but Author Forrest spoils most of his effects by belaboring the obvious, philosophizing stodgily...